Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PDF support for phpgw

[Daryl L. L. Houston]

The problem I guess is with making reports customizable, and that can be 
tricky when writing PDFs because, unlike HTML, they use absolute 
coordinates, and if you screw up the coordinates, stuff will just flow 
off the page. I wrote a class that dynamically generates PDFs based on a 
rowset, but it assumes that PDFLIB is installed. The class Alessandro 
pointed to (http://ros.co.nz/pdf/ ) looks pretty nifty at a glance, but 
there'd still be the problem of how to put together an interface that 
would allow users to build reports (I've done that too, but I was 
building reports from one table and with a given format). Actually 
writing simple PDFs isn't hard; it's making the interface flexible and 
ensuring that you don't have data trailing off the page because there's 
too much text in too many columns, etc., that gets a little tricky.

D



Brian Johnson wrote:

> Well a variety of info including creating invoices from time data.
>
> I have about 6 reports that I need to concert from MS Access in order to switch 
> to
> using phpgw as data storage (now that the addressbook splits the orgs and 
> persons)
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> I thought my first attempt would be a callout list for a service club I belong 
> to.
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> It is three columns with a header and footer with the data grouped by who the 
> name
> of the caller.  Each grouping has a header which is the caller's name.
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> Daryl L. L. Houston (address@hidden) wrote:
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> > What kind of data and what sort of PDF layout?
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> > Brian Johnson wrote:
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> > > There was some talk about adding PDF creation support to phpgw
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> > > Anyone know what the current status of this it?
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> > > Can anyone give me some help creating some pdf's from phpgw data?
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