Posted by Steve on 09/27/07 16:19

"The Natural Philosopher" <a@b.c> wrote in message
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> Butting in as an aside..

phil, thank gawd! the aside would bring me back off this fucking tanget of
lunacy sanders got me going down.

;^)

> Steve, whats your opinion of an RTF format?

i haven't really thought about it as much as i should have...and i've not
done anything with it in php yet.

> I need to generate invoices and suchlike from a PHP/apache combo, and
> PDF's look a shade overkill.
>
> I MAY simply print to a queue on the server in PCL or somesuch, but that
> won't work for remote clients.

i had thought of exec'ing to a printer with a pdf print driver on the
server, then picking it up for the brower. lots of steps though,
comparatively.

> I wpld sem o have three chocices fir siomething that gos in a web screen
> or an email
>
> HTML, with all the bollocks that entails,.
> PDF and all the bollocks THAT entails.
> Plain Text, and fudge the graphics
> RTF?
>
> what else is possible?
>
> Not looking for obscure comapatibility issues: Just a robust 95% solution
> that almost everyone will be able to use.

i'm open to just about anything that will be easy for the user and is very
close to the original report viewed in their browser.

have you experience or references working with php and rtf?

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