pdf creation

swordsinfo

Hi I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction I want to have a covert this page to pdf (like what joomla has on its sites) on my site.

(I think it involves something regarding a pdf printer so a pdf driver is prob required but if someone could give me some steps that would be great.)

It is a data driven page so I can control whats on the page of pdf creation

I have searched the web and there are loads of standalone apps but I want something on a hosted site

dazberry

Depending on what language you use there are toolkits available that can generate PDFs without needing to render the PDF via a printer driver. For instance we do it here (albeit in a desktop application) using one of the gnostice toolkits.

D.

swordsinfo

Thanks for the prompt reply - the thing is I want the user to be able to create it on a click for example there ill be a list of stories with 2 buttons one to create a print friendly page and the other to pdf the story. These stories are data driven so they wont be created via an application - any ideas??? there are heaps of stand alone products but nothing for what I need it for!

daymobrew

You should examine the Joomla code - there is probably a php class that does it.

swordsinfo

site is in asp is there any libary files available for this ?? Am i right in saying then that I do not need a pdf driver for this then:)

daymobrew

swordsinfo wrote: »

site is in asp is there any libary files available for this ?? Am i right in saying then that I do not need a pdf driver for this then:)

I don't know the answer to these questions. Time to google.

oeb

Zend has PDF classes, and there are multiple other ways to do it through PHP.

Here is a tutorial for using fpdf with php.

http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/php/easy-pdf-generation-in-php-8-02-27/page1.html