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

[David Ness]

I haven't used FPDI, but am a user of FPDF.
Assuming that FPDI can use any standard pdf as a template file (although
my understanding is that using FPDI the pdf it acts more like a 'layer'
than a template); On Macs, the ability to create PDF's from any
printable document is built into the OS, so that should work. On a
Windows PC, I use a freeware product called PDFCreator. Please post back
if FPDI requires something special about the template PDF file, as I'm
about to start a project that will utilize FPDI.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

Hope this helps.


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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Joel Shapiro
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:26 AM
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Subject: [FX.php List] PDF Template? (for use with FPDF/FPDI)

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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