Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

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> Yes, we can first ask the user to fill in a form, but then comes the part 
> I don't understand - how to covert it to pdf.
>
> It would be best if we could just fill in the fields on an existing form, 
> but it would also work to print the printer friendly form to the server's 
> printer queue, which could really be a postscript file we could then 
> convert to pdf.  In that case, I need to learn how to get PHP to print to 
> the server's printer...
>
> - Ron
>
> On 5/1/2010 7:53 AM, nagendra prasad wrote:
>> I am not sure if this works for your project but you can first ask user 
>> to
>> fill the form in PHP and then convert it into PDF. What say?
>>
>>
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Ron

Take a peek at this

http://fpdf.org/

Writing to a pdf from php is very cumbersome, this seems to take some of the 
sting out.

Gary 



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