[FX.php List] PDF Template? (for use with FPDF/FPDI)

[Joel Shapiro]

Hi all

When using FPDF & FPDI -- as in Dale's post below -- is a "PDF  
template" something that has to be created with a tool like Adobe  
Acrobat Professional, or are there other ways to create such a PDF  
template?

TIA,
-Joel


On Dec 24, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> FPDI allows you to take an existing PDF template and then build on  
> top of it with FPDF. The simplest example is of a letter created  
> with FileMaker data, where the art for your letterhead (header and  
> footer, for example) is in a template. FPDI lifts up the template  
> and makes it available as a "bed" to FPDF, so it can draw your  
> dynamic letter content. FPDF then saves the composited PDF to the  
> location you specify.
>
> Note that FPDF does not support templates by itself. You can build  
> an entire PDF from scratch with FPDF, but unless you extend it with  
> FPDI, you will not be able to use a pre-made template.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dale