Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Wednesday 29 October 2003 09:32, emma wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:51:49PM -0800, Eric Walstad wrote: > > Have you checked out ReportLab? It might be a good alternative. > > > > It looks great, thanks. (Unfortunately) I need a PHP library for > this

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:51:49PM -0800, Eric Walstad wrote: > Have you checked out ReportLab? It might be a good alternative. > It looks great, thanks. (Unfortunately) I need a PHP library for this project though and ReportLab is Python. emma -- Emma J

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:52:27AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > However, she wrote "I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open > source..." leading me and some others to think she meant that she was > saying that PDFlib was Open Source. I fixed this when I reposted the message. It shou

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

John Hasler wrote: Roberto Sanchez writes: She doesn't the user of her product to be required to deal with licensing PDFlib, so she is looking for alternatives that *are* compatibe with the GPL. However, she wrote "I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source..." leading me and

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

Roberto Sanchez writes: > She doesn't the user of her product to be required to deal with licensing > PDFlib, so she is looking for alternatives that *are* compatibe with the > GPL. However, she wrote "I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source..." leading me and some others to

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: Hi everyone, I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I don't want peo

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. > > I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I > > don't want people

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:22, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:07:59PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > > > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee > > > for commercial applications. > > > > Then it isn't Open Source.  Ple

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unfortunately it's for variable data PDFs (in this case ordering > business cards). So I need to do more than just convert documents > from one format to another. > > I think this is the library I'm going to use: > http://www.ros.co.nz/p

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:32:24PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: What about just setting up PHP so it has limited shell access and having the program execute ps2pdf (or another suitable alternative) on the Web server? Unfortunately it's for variable data PDFs (in this cas

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:07:59PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee for > > commercial applications. > > Then it isn't Open Source. Please post a link to the license. D'uh. That's why I'm asking for *alt

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:32:24PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > What about just setting up PHP so it has limited shell access and > having the program execute ps2pdf (or another suitable alternative) > on the Web server? Unfortunately it's for variable data PDFs (in this case ordering business

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee for > commercial applications. Then it isn't Open Source. Please post a link to the license. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:45:16PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Not to pick nits, but is the problem that it's opensource, or rather that it's GPL (or some other license with restrictions)? The BSD license is, I believe, an opensource license without restriction. The

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:45:16PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Not to pick nits, but is the problem that it's opensource, or rather > that it's GPL (or some other license with restrictions)? The BSD > license is, I believe, an opensource license without restriction. The problem is that I wa

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. > I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I > don't want people to have to deal with the licensing on PDFLib. > Not to pi

PDFs on the fly with PHP

Hi everyone, I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I don't want people to have to deal with the licensing on PDFLib. I've found a few other products (via php.net), and I'm wondering if anyone has a