PDF Generation.

[Jacqui1811]

I am trying to port an asp.net site to php, the new client will not install windows but wants me to replicate a site I did for him a while back in .net.
In the other site I used the aspPDF from websupergoo and just sent in the urls of the desired reports to produce the pdfs.
Is there anything similar that I can just pass in a url to , preferably opensource. The ones I have looked at have seemed only to build the pdfs from html.
Any hints please folks.
Thanks.
Jacqui.

 

[irbk]

Have you looked at PrimoPDF or PDF995? They are both free PDF converters but they act more like printers then anything. You "print" a file to them and they convert the file to a PDF.

 

[Jacqui1811]

Thanks irbk.
Will read the doc for those a bit more. I have already looked at pdf995 and not sure it does what I need.
Think I am looking for something as simple as aspPDF you see, where I just send in the url for the report.
I will let you know but if anyone else has any suggestions.
Jacqui.

 

[irbk]

PrimoPDF is going to do the same thing as PDF995 (but with out all the evil adds) so I don't think it's going to be what you want. Sorry.

 

[Jacqui1811]

Just had a look at PrimoPDF. The pdfer would not be run on a windows machine, I would be using apache so I dont think that Primo would work.
Thanks anyway.
Jacqui.

 

[dkdude]

Jacqui1811,

Have a look at FPDF found @

http://www.fpdf.org/

It's all free and requires only PHP4+. Have a look in the script section as well - some users have made classes that can convert (at least some) html into pdf.

Regards

 

[Sybrex]

http://www.sybrex.com

VersyPDF.PHP
Work with exists and newly PDF documents

 

[Stretchwickster]

Is there anything similar that I can just pass in a url to...The ones I have looked at have seemed only to build the pdfs from html.

Regarding the URLs you pass into aspPDF, aren't they pointing to html that is used to build the pdfs?

Another PDF generation tool I've seen mentioned a lot is PDFlib.

Clive

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