How to save a textarea on the explorer to a pdf file

aozcakir

Hi,
I need to save the textarea on the browser into a pdf file.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Aslan

LordShryku

Look at phpclasses.org. They have a couple of good PDF classes you could use.

maybl8r03

The easiest way I found to do this is to use:

Apache FOP (http://fop.apache.org) - it's java
Do not use the PHP Java class - just use exec or shell_exec to call fop
Use XSL/T file.

This will create a new PDF file.

To append to an existing PDF file however is a mystery to me because the PDF file is usually compressed and has too many finalized formating already defined. So your best bet is to create a fresh one.

LordShryku

FOP link is actually http://xml.apache.org/fop/

maybl8r03

Thanks for the correction.