Comments on: Generating PDFs on the fly

By: Pontus

Pontus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:53:14 +0000

Hi Ryan!

Well in this case you actually hardly don’t need any code at all. The thing is to get PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/) to work on the server. Then it’s just a matter of calling the command line interface for PDFCreator, that is creating a subprocess from PHP via system(), passthru(), backticks (http://se2.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.execution.php) or alike, and take care of the result.

Note though that PDFCreator is a software printer which means that to convert, for example, a Word file to a PDF file Word it self needs to be installed on the server.

Hope that helps a little bit.

By: Ryan Mather

Ryan Mather — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:41:21 +0000

This is an awesome project! I am trying to find a similar solution for our database. We currently have a PHP based program that allows users to upload various file formats including Word, Excel, Image, JPEG, etc. We need to convert those on the fly to PDF. I was wondering if you could help me with some of the PHP code?

By: Martin Sandström

Martin Sandström — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:50:05 +0000

Tjena Poppa, det var länge sedan. Intressant artikel, ska läsa igenom den lite mer nogrannare senare.

Ville bara säga att din .rss feed länkar fel och returerar en 404. (Kanske inte passar som kommentar, men jag hittade ingen e-post adress)

Hoppas allt är bra!
/ Martin