Server Side PDF Creation

[axman505]

Is there any free way out there to automate the creation of a pdf file serverside?

For example, if i upload a word document or other document to have it automatically converted to pdf so that it would be in a display format that could be display on the web?

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

 

[un1xh3ad]

Hello

A friend of mine recently accomplished this , there seems to be a few ways. One way is to have pdf compiled into PHP and use the pdf functions.

Another way is to use a PHPdf class. Heres a url to a pdf class.

http://joshuaeichorn.com/~CelloG/out/HTMLframesConverter/l0l33t/elementindex_Pdf-php.html

Dont forget that php is a system binary and can be used for shell style programming as well as parsing webpages.

Cheers

Neil

 

[HenryMonster]

If you are looking for a free tool, then please disregards this post.

1. There is a Java based report writing tool called Enterprise Report Writer (originally from Enterprise Soft, which eventually was aquired by Actuate). It's not the best report-writer in the world, but it works, it's faster then you could imagine (given it's Java) and it can produce PDF files (beside several other formats).

I've been using version 4.02 (released in 2000) and it works Ok.

You can find more tools like this from Actuate at

http://www.reportingengines.com.

If you need more info on this write me to gruzglin@litespan.net

2) Crystal Reports tool can also produce PDF files, so if
you can afford it, buy it.