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[Eric Persson]

I use http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf for the creation of all my invoices, I do 
create everything from scratch though, with borders and graphics. The 
optimal soloution would be to open an existing pdf and just add 
text/images to various places.

I know Adobe have some server software which is awesome at creating pdfs 
  for printing and other stuff, but it costs a lot of dough 
unfortunately and requires extra servers to.

//Eric


Hans Zaunere wrote:

> We have an existing form in PDF that is typically printed and used.
> However, now they want some of the information to - of course - be
> automatically be filled out from our database, and then downloadable and
> printable.
> 
> Although only a single page, the form is quite nasty.  Although, I must
> say, graphics/colors/etc aren't a concern.  I'm looking for ways to fill
> in the information via PHP with the least amount of vector graphics
> calculations, Postscript, or whatever else (this is mostly uncharted
> territory for me).
> 
> 
> Some thoughts
> 
> -- since the form is already in PDF, can I convert it to HTML.  Then,
> using HTML as the template, fill in the information and convert back to
> PDF?  I can't just stick to HTML because I'm concerned about printing
> issues.
> 
> -- are there good (commercial is fine) libraries that let me do this?
> While something native in PHP would be nice (I've seen PDFLib.com) I'd
> have no problem using an external command and piping information around.
> 
> -- does Adobe, or anyone else, offer programmatic ways to use existing
> PDFs as templates?
> 
> -- are there other/better ways to do this that I'm missing?
> 
> Money is less of a concern than time.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> H
> 
> P.S:  Next step; sending print jobs to HP printers from Apache/PHP
> 
> 
> 
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