Dynamic PDF output

[Christoph Burschka]

Hi,

On my site, I would like to provide a feature that allows content (in this case
articles or forum topics) to be exported as a PDF file.

So far, I am planning to do this by first translating the html content into
LaTeX and then using pdflatex (with a system() command) to create the pdf.

But I don't like the fact that I need to use temp files for this - pdflatex will
only work with input and output files, which means I have to create the .tex
file, run pdflatex, then read and print the .pdf file and delete both.

Do you know of anything that would allow me to print the pdf output directly
from the input I have - or even a way to avoid having to translate it into LaTeX?

The server load is not a problem, as the site is not heavily used - otherwise I
might look into caching the output later on.


--
Christoph Burschka

[J.O. Aho]

Re: Dynamic PDF output

Christoph Burschka wrote:

Hi,
>
On my site, I would like to provide a feature that allows content (in this case
articles or forum topics) to be exported as a PDF file.
>
So far, I am planning to do this by first translating the html content into
LaTeX and then using pdflatex (with a system() command) to create the pdf.
>
But I don't like the fact that I need to use temp files for this - pdflatex will
only work with input and output files, which means I have to create the .tex
file, run pdflatex, then read and print the .pdf file and delete both.
>
Do you know of anything that would allow me to print the pdf output directly
from the input I have - or even a way to avoid having to translate it into LaTeX?
>
The server load is not a problem, as the site is not heavily used - otherwise I
might look into caching the output later on.
>
>

PDFLib allows you create pdf on the fly, but you have to formate things
yourself, you can't relay on how things looks on the web-page.
Used it in a project I worked on, worked quite nicely.


//Aho

[Thomas Mlynarczyk]

Re: Dynamic PDF output

Also sprach Christoph Burschka:

Do you know of anything that would allow me to print the pdf output
directly from the input I have - or even a way to avoid having to
translate it into LaTeX?

I've used this one and found it quite useful:


http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf-php

Greetings,
Thomas

[Brent Palmer]

Re: Dynamic PDF output


"Christoph Burschka" <christoph.burs chka@rwth-aachen.dewrote in message
news:4sm5o1Fv75 72U1@mid.dfncis .de...

Hi,
>
On my site, I would like to provide a feature that allows content (in this
case
articles or forum topics) to be exported as a PDF file.
>
So far, I am planning to do this by first translating the html content
into
LaTeX and then using pdflatex (with a system() command) to create the pdf.
>
But I don't like the fact that I need to use temp files for this -
pdflatex will
only work with input and output files, which means I have to create the
.tex
file, run pdflatex, then read and print the .pdf file and delete both.
>
Do you know of anything that would allow me to print the pdf output
directly
from the input I have - or even a way to avoid having to translate it into
LaTeX?
>
The server load is not a problem, as the site is not heavily used -
otherwise I
might look into caching the output later on.
>
>
--
Christoph Burschka

Hello Christoph.

I have used R & OS PDF Class in major projects. This class creates dynamic
PDF documents on the fly.
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

You can create a demo PDF on their site.

Regards,

Brent Palmer.