Re: [WebERP-developers] PDF generator in webERP.

[Phil D. <ph...@lo...>]

we would not want to leave people on slow bandwidth connections with 
2meg pdfs for a 10k report though

Phil

Phil Daintree
Logic Works Ltd - +64 (0)275 567890
http://www.logicworks.co.nz

On 11/02/15 16:38, Rafael Chacón wrote:
> HI Phil,
>
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> Topic 1: From R&OS -> FPDF -> TCPDF. For future pdf development, I 
> think it will be better to directly use TCPDF: (a) Y-coordinate= 
> instead of calculating as from page-bottom to cell-bottom and the 
> script class.pdf.php translates to page-top to cell-top to use 
> tcpdf.php, we can directly use page-top to cell-top and TCPDF; (b) 
> TCPDF has interesting functions (writeHTML, writeHTMLCell, etc.) to 
> write code html (a screen report) into a pdf.
>
> Topic 2: tcpdf 6.2.6 has new fonts and others.They may be helpful to 
> give more options to reports.
>
> Topic 3: With PrintCustTransPortrait.php (and other reports) I have 
> unexpected breaks (see enclose) and prints lines with whitespace. The 
> problems are inside AddTextWarp().
>
> Regards, Rafael.
>
>
> 2015-02-09 22:34 GMT-06:00 Phil Daintree <ph...@lo... 
> <mailto:ph...@lo...>>:
>
>     Yes originally used R & OS pdf library.
>     Moved to Oliver Plathey FPDF http://www.fpdf.org/
>     The class.pdf.php was created to allow the transition to FPDF
>      ... then to TCPDF which was a development of FPDF which allowed
>     utf-8 pdfs - using CID fonts rather than embedding a large monster
>     font file into each pdf - so a small 10k report becomes 2 Meg.
>     This was not considered acceptable.
>     I update tcpdf from time to time.
>
>     Not sure about 3.
>
>     Phil
>
>     Phil Daintree
>     Logic Works Ltd - +64 (0)275 567890
>     http://www.logicworks.co.nz
>
>     On 10/02/15 13:37, Rafael Chacón wrote:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     Some questions:
>>
>>     1. webERP begun using PHP Pdf creation - R&OS
>>     (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php/). Then, webERP moved to
>>     TCPDF (http://www.tcpdf.org/). Javier de Lorenzo-Cáceres wrote
>>     ~/includes/class.pdf.php to use TCPDF with
>>     "PHP_Pdf_creation_-_R&OS syntax" (old code). Is it right?
>>
>>     2. Someone has updated the ~/includes/tcpdf folder with TCPDF
>>     version 6.2.6 ?
>>
>>     3. Someone has replaced the function AddTextWarp() or has problem
>>     with this function (last line line-feeded before the end) ?
>>
>>     Best regards, Rafael.
>>
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