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Posted by Rouvas on 05/05/05 12:12
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 22:30, Dan Rossi wrote:
> On 05/05/2005, at 1:47 AM, Kristen G. Thorson wrote:
> > Dan,
> >
> > I have done this before, but it was only a proof-of concept excercise
> > for me, so my procedure may not work for you. My test was against an
> > Amazon web service and generating a PDF from the XML returned to me.
> >
> > This method used Apache's FOP. Before executing the following code, I
> > saved the XML returned from Amazon as a temp file ($xmlfile).
> >
> > $PDFfile = "$xmlfile.pdf";
> > $callstring = "$FOPpath/fop.sh -xsl $xslforoot/$xslfofile -xml
> > $xmlfile -pdf $PDFfile";
> > $answer = shell_exec( $callstring );
> > header( "Content-type: $ctype" );
> > $pieces = explode( "/", $xmlfile );
> > header( "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$pieces[ count(
> > $pieces )-1 ] );
> > readfile( "$xmlfile.pdf" );
> >
> >
> > I hope this is helpful to you,
> > kgt
>
> Hi yes this is exactly what i may have to do. I have tried all the
> usual outlets in terms of subclasses of FPDF , all are limited and
> crappy, it just cant do tables properly. The closest I got was with
> PDML however it was still tedious to build a table with ! Now I think
> processing for such a command line would take forever this is what I
> need to do, a print button displays on the header of a form entry. What
> i need to do is collect the data from that database entry and display
> it as a view with the data rather than the form and make it printable
> in a pdf. This ideally means generate xml from the db entry, save it as
> a file, execute commandline with temp xml file, readfile the pdf. I
> dont think it should take too long to output to the browser right ? I
> think a step i'd like to skip is the readfile, and work out how to send
> to standard output and use passthru ?
>
> In the past I have used an app called HTMLDoc, its the bomb for making
> pdf manuals with chapters and table of contents. It also requires
> saving a temp html file and then sends the pdf as standard output.
> However HTMLDoc is not free anymore, I only have one licence for that
> to make docs only.
Have you tried this? It seems HTMLDoc is still free... I've used that tool
also... pretty satisfied.
http://www.htmldoc.org/software.php
-Stathis
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