| Re: PHP: convert a page to pdf [OT] [message #180974 is a reply to message #180962] |
Fri, 29 March 2013 18:22   |
Michael Vilain
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In article <1l0hjp2.rte4bo90sg64N%adrian(at)poppyrecords(dot)invalid(dot)invalid>,
adrian(at)poppyrecords(dot)invalid(dot)invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 28/03/13 21:38, Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Mac OS 8 and 9 are still perfectly adequate for non-entertainment work
>>> and have many good features which were thrown away when Mac introduced
>>> OSX. And yes, I do run it natively on all but one of my machines.
>>>
>> How's your pet brontosauraus?
>
> As an engineer, my choices are based on what does the job best, not on
> what is currently fashionable. My car has pneumatic tyres (Dunlop
> 1888), my house is fitted with ordinary water taps (Brecknell 1859) and
> my video projector uses an arc lamp (Davy 1801).
>
> If you want to use the most up-to-date computer system, bear in mind
> that OSX is based on UNIX from 1969, whereas MacOS is much newer,
> having been first released in 1984.
To return the discussion to the OP's question.
I _think_ they're trying to convert a data-generated webapp page to PDF,
but I could be wrong here.
If they're trying to do it on a client computer (e.g. your bank
generates a statement on the page and you want to capture it as a PDF),
then there are solutions like printing the page as PDF on MacOS X or
some sort of plugin on Windows. Linux, I have no clue.
If they're trying to actually create a feature of the webapp to generate
a PDF, then they're have to incorporate various libraries into their php
or mod_php interpreter and modify the page to include a button that will
run code to generate the page using those libraries and draw the PDF.
At least that's what had to be done last I checked. It may have changed.
As to who's the better engineer here? I don't know. Just get a ruler,
measure, and report your findings. Let time decide who will rot first.
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