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jamessy	11 Oct, 2008 - 06:07 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 15 Apr, 2008 Posts: 22	Hi all , is it possible to create a pdf or pdfs dynamicly so that what ever the user can see on a page(from a database) can be built in to a downloadable pdf?Any help would be grateful .
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Hary	RE: Php Generating Pdfs 11 Oct, 2008 - 06:13 AM Post #2
D.I.C Head Joined: 23 Sep, 2008 Posts: 205 Thanked: 15 times My Contributions	Yes: http://www.fpdf.org/. You can create a handler for every page that displays it in pdf instad of html. This post has been edited by Hary: 11 Oct, 2008 - 06:14 AM
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CTphpnwb	RE: Php Generating Pdfs 11 Oct, 2008 - 12:15 PM Post #3
D.I.C Regular Joined: 8 Aug, 2008 Posts: 374 Thanked: 22 times My Contributions	While you can display a pdf instead of html, please don't! Displaying a pdf in a browser is slow, and it wastes screen space with yet another toolbar. Create the pdf and allow the user to download it and then view outside of the browser.
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jamessy	RE: Php Generating Pdfs 11 Oct, 2008 - 12:24 PM Post #4
New D.I.C Head Joined: 15 Apr, 2008 Posts: 22	QUOTE(CTphpnwb @ 11 Oct, 2008 - 01:15 PM) While you can display a pdf instead of html, please don't! Displaying a pdf in a browser is slow, and it wastes screen space with yet another toolbar. Create the pdf and allow the user to download it and then view outside of the browser. Yeah thanks thats what i was planning to do , the last link i was sent generates pdfs from a html page but i need to generate from a database is that possible or am i just being a little slow
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engale	RE: Php Generating Pdfs 11 Oct, 2008 - 08:01 PM Post #5
D.I.C Addict Joined: 30 Sep, 2008 Posts: 549 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 50 My Contributions	can't you read the db out via php to html then convert?
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