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

[Dale Bengston]

Hi Joel,

On OS X, you can create a PDF of any document from any app by  
clicking on the PDF popup/button in the lower left corner of the  
print dialog. Anybody have Windows advice?

Dale

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:25 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> 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
>
>
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