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Improved PDF generation with RE Framework RE_Pdf

Friday, March 20th, 2009

I've previously written a post on creating a PDF generator class using Zend_Pdf, which detailed some Zend_Pdf usage and introduced a class which could be used to create PDFs easily based on an XML configuration file or such. Zend_Pdf, while generally quite good, has one big issue: It does not support ...

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Making a PDF generator class using Zend_Pdf

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

There are some expensive libraries that you can use to generate PDF files... but why bother with them, when there are good free alternatives like Zend_Pdf? In three steps, you can generate a fancy report: Create a PDF template Insert data to template with Zend_Pdf Profit $$$ Since this is a quite repetitive task, let's ...

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