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lightflowmark wrote:
Hi Markus, I did some research on this last week, as it happens, and came across a couple of links that may be useful: The last people to try to re-write Zend_Pdf ended up spinning it off into a new project at http://www.refw.org/, I think so they could release it under LGPL rather than a BSD license. This appears to be abandoned, and sadly undocumented, but might contain a bunch of useful pointers. I didn't explore it too much as it was so undocumented, but did start off life as a ZF proposal so may fit well. The project I ended up using for this was http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/ Development on the original has been abandoned, but recently some other people took up the code at http://groups.google.com/group/dompdf and are discussing which direction to take it. I liked it because in my application, I want to be able to display a page to the user and then download a PDF of the same page; dompdf lets me do the layout exactly once, in HTML (which I already understand), and then converts it to a PDF for me. The discussion groups suggest it has some bugs, but for my simple HTML layout it's working fine. Reformatting this project into a ZendX module might be a practical amount of work and also a good fit for ZF, because of it's HTML-centric conceptual basis, and also provide a good synergy with the dompdf project as the new developers are really looking for help with it. This is also under the LGPL, but given the situation of the project at the moment I'd think now would be the ideal time to ask if they'd consider licensing it under something Zend was happy with also. If you go this route I'd be happy to put some time into it. Attached is a view helper for DomPdf which helps it play nicely with ZFs autoloader, etc. http://www.nabble.com/file/p23469553/ConvertToDomPdf.php ConvertToDomPdf.php M Nico Edtinger-4 wrote:Markus Wolff:Hi,Hi Markus!since our project team is going to need to create PDF documents with complex layouts soon and Zend_PDF does not really support hits right now, we are considering adding support for cells and tables by ourselves. Before we do that, I'd like to inquire if there are already plans (and more importantly, time-tables) for adding those features to Zend_PDF "officially". Given that there have been quite a few patches and enhancements by other users who also proposed these for official inclusion, I am also wondering if Zend is currently considering one those options? If the current patches are not being considered, it would be good to know why, so we could work towards not repeating mistakes others have already made and maybe be able to contribute our code?IMO even if there is a big rewrite of Zend_Pdf in the feature it should hold us up adding API improvements and needed features. As I myself found it quite complicated to draw even simple text I started a new proposal for some enhancements: <http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/UwDI >. There has also been a proposal for Zend_Pdf_Cell <http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/cak >, but for some reason Logan Buesching didn't respond to comments. Maybe he could at least give us his code under the CLA to work upon. Of course all changes done now should be made as forward compatible as possible, because a bigger rewrite of Zend_Pdf might happen. As long as we make that rewrite not to complicated, which shouldn't be that hard (even if it gets more modular we could keep the old methods, but mark the deprecated), I'm all for giving it some love.Best wishes, Markusnico
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