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#1 Renaissance-Design

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Posted 22 January 2012 - 11:38 AM

Ok, so I know you can create PDFs line by line in PHP using a lib like Zend_PDF, but what I'm ideally looking to do is take a HTML page with a print stylesheet and output that as a PDF document.

So far I've come up with two possible solutions:

Use dompdf
Install CUPS-PDF on the server and pipe output to that

Neither is absolutely ideal for what I want to do. Dompdf is a HTML rendering engine written entirely in PHP, which is about as efficient as it sounds and has ropey float support. CUPS-PDF would have a minimum requirement of a VPS since it's a system printer.

So, anyone have any alternatives?

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 09:34 AM

This is a tad of a long shot as I've not done it in a long while so excuse the vagueness... If memory serves me you can get around it via XSLT although a quick Google seems to be XML -> via XSLT -> XSL-FO -> via Apache FOP -> PDF.

I'll see if I can dig up some of the code I used for this as I suspect I'll also be using it again shortly in the future.

This post has been edited by CSN-UK: 23 January 2012 - 09:39 AM