Re: [chiPHPug-discuss] create .pdf's online

[Richard L. <ce...@l-...>]

On Thu, January 18, 2007 4:50 pm, Melanie McClusky wrote:
> Anybody know how to create .pdf's online.  More details..
>
> I have people taking a test, when they have completed the test, I need
> the
> report to output as a .pdf.  The information that is to print out will
> be
> coming from information that is stored in a database.

I've used http://php.net/pdf maybe a dozen times.

Here's a simple example:
http://uncommonground.com/engineers/cheatsheet.pdf
http://uncommonground.com/engineers/cheatsheet.phps
This one has no database variables, but you can probably work out that
bit easily enough already.
I find it a lot easier to think in "inches" and use "X * 72" all over
the place.

Here's one a bit more complicated:
http://uncommonground.com/events.pdf
http://uncommonground.com/events_pdf.phps
This pulls a rather complicated query from the database, inserts JPG
images, and dynamically chooses a font size between a range based on
the amount of space the text needs for each date on the calendar.
This one was done long before I figured out the * 72 trick...
(The globals.inc just defines the 'pagetop' and 'pagebot' functions
that are used in case of a total failure -- ignore it)

You probably need something in between these two in terms of complexity.

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