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Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS
by Mrdini other posts by this author
May 3 2002 5:11PM messages near this date
[PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS | Re: [PHP] Batch processing & HTML2PS
In article <php.general-95821@[...].net> ,
 php-general@[...].hk (Jason Wong) wrote:

>  On Friday 03 May 2002 07:03, Mrdini wrote:
>  
>  > > I think using the PDF functions would be a much better solution. You have
>  > > full control over what gets printed where. Search on sourceforge for
>  > > wrapper classes which make the PDF functions easier to use.
>  >
>  > Well, I didn't really look into this way of doing PDFs as I want to dump
>  > straight to lpr (it's a postscript laser printer). Also, I don't feel up
>  > to learning how to create PDFs -_-. I had a look a while back, and it
>  > sounds VERY complicated.
>  
>  I as said, take a look at some of those classes. It's a lot easier that you 
>  think. And whatever little learning curve there is, is more than made up for 
>  by not having to deal with the uncertainties of HTML layout :)

....(a day later).....

*bows* You are, of course, right. :) Whilst I haven't quite gotten there 
yet, I've been experimenting a bit with 
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php/>  and it's _easy_! Whilst not 
as flexible as something like PDFlib, it suits my purposes very well 
nevertheless. The end is in sight!

Thanks.

-- 
Yoav Felberbaum
E-Mail: y.m.felberbaum@[...].uk
Website (Not worth looking ^_^) : http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~c9807379/

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