Comments on: Create PDF documents Online with TCPDF

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:42:11 +0000

You’re welcome… I’m using several classes from the Zend framework, but it’s a much to heavy framework, it would be great if there are better resources. Maybe they have to much competitors

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:39:14 +0000

Hi Olaf,
Zend documentation is a pity… I’ve learned Zend with the help of webpages like yours.
Thanks for helping and sharing, and being present after all this to answer comments ans questions

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:10:29 +0000

Hi Nicolas,
I don’t get it why Zend_PDF is so limited, is it the missing documentation or because no one like to use it? You’re right TCPDF is the right choice: copy the class, create an object and your ready
I’m glad that my article was helpful.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:08:06 +0000

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:51:06 +0000

Hi,
I’ve just spent a whole day trying to output a pdf with Zend, using Zend_Pdf (what a hell I can not just simply center text!!! The default x and y positions are bottom left of the page, but who’s making a page from bottom to top???), TCPDF (file does not begin by ‘%PDF), and mPDF (worked two minutes after I’ve installed it).

So, thanks to Q.
And thanks to Olaf, because I’ve found what I was looking for on his webpage.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:10:08 +0000

Hi Eugen, I know creating "nice looking" PDF files using TCPDF or FPDF is not so easy. I did this once with FPDF a view years ago. Currently I'm to busy to write some new PHP code which is able to add new PDF pages if required. But it's on my list, I'm sorry that I don't have a better answer for you (you're not the only one). In the mean time check the example from the FPDF website, it's not the same but the concept is similar.

By: Eugen

Eugen — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:27:19 +0000

Dear Olaf!!! If I use many invoice rows, the pages 2, 3, 4 etc. are shown incorrectly. So: http://klavier-gesang-hannover.de/example_067.pdf Why? Please, help me!

By: Olaf

Olaf — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:35:41 +0000

Hi Matt,
I can imagine that paging of multicells is a problem. The cells in PDF aren’t smart, if you like to do that you need to test the text length in PHP before the page break will happen (don’t ask me how, lol)

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:56:26 +0000

Hi Olaf,

It’s what you say, and there might start the problem, see this:

http://www.jonathanlbrown.com/2011/07/17/tcpdf-paging-those-multicells/

So you are actually between the auto and manual pagebreak.

By: finalwebsites.com

finalwebsites.com — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:54:54 +0000

Hi Matt,
I’m sorry that I’m not able to provide an example.
I did something like this before with FPDF and it should work the same. Think about how a word document with a footer and header functions.
With PHP and PDF it works the same, after a specific Y value is reached a page break is done. Maybe you should try something simple:
Create simple header and footer functions and than create a loop with numbers or simple text. Just something that tells you when the page break is done.