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PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:42 pm
by vwduud
For creating pdf files in PHP 5.3.2, what are you using? Third party library? Something built in PHP?

Thanks - Jim

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:43 pm
by Christopher
I use FPDF.

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:06 pm
by vwduud
Christopher wrote:I use FPDF.
Did you start using FPDF from the beginning of your PDF development or did you migrate from previous PHP_PDFLib.DLL development?

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:08 pm
by Weirdan
Zend_Pdf

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:39 pm
by Christopher
I ended up with FPDF because it just worked. I hear Zend_Pdf is good too.

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:27 am
by pickle
I've used PDFLib, FPDF, and TCPDF.

PDFLib is the most powerful of the three, but is also not free, and takes some server setup to get working. In hindsight, I didn't need to use this library.
TCPDF & FPDF work very similarly. TCPDF bugged me though, in that I had to extend the object to get custom headers & footers. Not a fan of that approach, so I went to FPDF, which should work just fine for 99% of what you need to do.

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:32 am
by roders
i use FPDF

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:39 am
by Turv
I've used DOM PDF because i found it very simple to integrate into the Codeigniter Framework.

Re: PDF File Generation - What are you using?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:49 am
by waynes888
mPdf - create PDF from html - excellent tool. http://mpdf.bpm1.com/

We generate 3000+ documents a day with this tool and it works flawlessy - uses the fPdf library but takes away the chore of creating the pdfs