[FX.php List] [Offish] PDF generation

[Leo R. Lundgren]

It looks interesting.

I just have one main problem with allt the free PDF libraries out there (that I have looked at over the last few years) -- They don't support kerning. This is major deal breaker for anything that requires good looking text, and to be blunt I think it's a shame that they don't.

I might have missed some library that provides kerning, does anyone know of one? I mean of the free ones. I know PDFlib (which I think is nice) and a couple of other commercial ones support it, but that's it.

Another thing that would be highly desired, but of course not for everyone, is the possibility to embed vector graphics into the PDF, without first having to convert it into a Type 1 font. Haven't seen that even in PDFlib for some reason :-/

BTW, in case one is interested in finding recommended/good PDF libraries, do some Googling. I know there's a good summary of a few of them over at Stack Overflow, for example.

Toodles.


15 feb 2011 kl. 23.58 skrev Joel Shapiro:

> Hey Steve
> 
> I agree w/ Anders.  mPDF is my current fave.
> 
> (I'd shown TCPDF a couple years ago at DevCon).
> 
> Cheers,
> -Joel
> 
> 
> On Feb 15, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Steve Winter wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Anders...
>> 
>> I see that it takes a different approach, in that it converts (X)HTML into pdf... nice way of doing it (and so much easier to manipulate than the fPDF way I'm guessing ;-)
>> 
>> Will investigate...!
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 15 Feb 2011, at 22:49, Anders Monsen wrote:
>> 
>>> mPDF. Excellent stuff.
>>> 
>>> Anders Monsen
>>> 
>>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I've used fpdf quite a bit in the past, and have need of pdf generation for a current project and IIRC someone on the list (maybe you Joel?) mentioned an alternative which they had worked with recently and found a little more user-friendly than fpdf...
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone remember what it was...?
>>>> 
>>>> Ta
>>>> S
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Steve Winter
>>>> steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz
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