[FX.php List] Creating a PDF label and show on a web page

[Steve Winter]

Hi John,

You could take a look at fpdf, (http://www.fpdf.org/) which is an open- 
source php creator library, and generate the pdf using that directly  
into the browser using PHP...

I've not tried do barcodes with it, however I don't see that it would  
be too much of an issue.

The other thing which you could look at is a bar-code image creation  
class (like http://www.sid6581.net/cs/php-scripts/barcode/ pretty old  
now, but still works really well ;-) and then simply generate the  
label in pure HTML rather than using a pdf at all...

Just a couple of ideas, if you want more details just shout...!

Cheers
Steve

On 25 Jun 2009, at 18:27, John Funk wrote:

> I have a PHP script that needs to create a PDF of a FileMaker Layout  
> and display on a web page. (I have Barcodes on the layout)
> This is what I thought I could do:
> 1. Call a FileMaker script using:
> $request -> AddDBParam("-script", "Make Label");
> (but this is not compatible to run on FMServer Advance).
> 2. Get the PDF in HTML
>
> Any body have another workflow that works with FX and FMServer  
> Advance 10?
>
> I could just display the label in html with dynamic data and use a  
> style sheet to call the bar code font but how to I get the barcode  
> font to download, is this legal?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> John Funk
> .
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