HTML to PDF

kazimmerman posted this at 23:54 — 28th July 2007.

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Has anyone found and/or used anything that can convert HTML to PDF on the fly. What I would love (but am not so sure could find) is a script that would allow me to input data into a form which will be sent to a database, but also sent to an HTML page and then converted to PDF and saved as a PDF on the server.

Perhaps it's too complex and/or not possible, but if there is anything out there, free or not, let me know.

Kurtis

kb posted this at 03:42 — 29th July 2007.

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Look up "PDFgen".

It's a PHP library, free, that'll hook you up.

I use it. But make sure you read the docs on how it works... it's alot of custom-tags.

Abhishek Reddy posted this at 07:35 — 29th July 2007.

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Instead of going data->html->pdf, why not go data->html, and data->pdf, separately?

kazimmerman posted this at 11:46 — 29th July 2007.

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brady.k:

Thanks for the link. I'll check that out.

Abhishek Reddy:

I guess my only reasoning was to be able to keep the styling as it is on my website (in a print-friendly version, though) and then convert it to a PDF. If it was pure data, I don't know how to make the PDF still look appealing and printable.

Kurtis

kb posted this at 11:54 — 29th July 2007.

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Well, if you use the PDFgen library (or something similar) then you will HAVE to go from data->html and data->PDF separately, because of the nature of it.

kazimmerman posted this at 12:17 — 29th July 2007.

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Yeah, that's fine. I can deal with it.

The only reason I specified I wanted to go HTML to PDF was because I didn't know how to do either one (HTML to PDF or data to PDF).

Thanks again.

Kurtis

webwiz posted this at 19:03 — 30th July 2007.

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You may find this link useful:
http://web2.pdfonline.com/