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Old 10-19-2004
Sacs
 
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Default Re: Printing

Ed Jones wrote:

> Have a look at http://www.fpdf.org as a possible option if you need to
> accurately lay out your page, and printing from the browser isn't good
> enough.
>
> Basically, you create a PDF file which the user then prints. Recent
> versions of Acrobat reader can execute javascript to open the print
> dialog, too.
>
> Ed


I just stumbled across FPDF a couple of weeks ago when needing to create
documents from php for an internal project.

Absolutely brilliant software! Takes a bit to get your head around, but
follow the examples, look at a few of the addon scripts and you're away.

I can see me using this in lots of places :-)

Sacs
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