Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] PDF support for phpgw

[Brian Johnson]

My understanding is that PDFLIB does not have a suitable license for includsion 
in
phpgw and people have been trying to avoid requiring add-on software when people
have enough trouble already with just Apache, php, rdms, and email

I don't really need a report creation interface since these would be static
templates but I would run into end of page issues as you suggest.


Lex had talked about making a report generation tool, perhaps you and he can 
discuss
your experiences with the interface.




Daryl L. L. Houston (address@hidden) wrote:
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>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.
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>Brian Johnson wrote:
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>>Well a variety of info including creating invoices from time data.
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>>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
>>>>
>>>>Anyone know what the current status of this it?
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone give me some help creating some pdf's from phpgw data?
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