forms printing concepts 1

[PeterMac]

OK... I am about to develop an on-line financial system that generates checks, receipts, and the like. I am planning to do it in PHP / MySQL. Now the thing that I don't know is how do I generate a formatted report (like a check run) that will be printable on stock forms like an accounting office might use? There are many kinds of ways to generate the report and I know how to do that in PHP, but how do I make the report easily line up with a printer's dimensions (send page breaks for a short page, etc). I haven't played with it yet so maybe its easy, but I don't really know where to start... any help appreciated.

Peter

 

[PeterMac]

well looks like I get to answer my own question... I had a friend point me in the PDFlib direction. I am looking into it now... check out their web site at...

http://www.pdflib.com/

cheers,
Peter

 

[sleipnir214]

Keep in mind that PHP has a family of functions that are an interface to that library:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php

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