Re: auto generated PDF

Per Jessen wrote:
Alain Roger wrote:

Concretly, user will buy some products/services online and i would
like to send him a PDF invoice via email.

is there a PDF module under PEAR or directly under PHP ?

So far I've seen two approaches to this:

1. LaTeX to PDF
2. Openoffice to PDF.

We use method #2.


pdflib from PECL
http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib/

Not pear so not pure PHP.

A pure PHP alternative is:

http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf

HTHs

Col

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