Any PDF webservices out there

freebie

I was wondering if anyone knows of any PDF webservices. My client wants to generate PDFs dynamically, but the hosting company doesn't have pdflib installed, so I thought I could dynamically "write an html report to disk" from a PHP file, and pass the URL of that file to a webservice (ie, either via XML-RPC or fsockopen or similar) that would create a PDF from that html and return it back as the response of the web-service call, at which point I could do a binary write back to the user.

Does anyone knows of any services that do something along these lines?
Thanks for any suggestions.

TomD

Try http://ros.co.nz/pdf/ or http://www.fpdf.org/ .

Also try a Google search for PHP PDF .

andymoo

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freebie

Thanks for the reply.
The reason that I'm looking for a webservice is because the PDF generation is very complex (ie, it's a report file that has lots of formatting) and can't be handled by the free PDF PHP class files that are out there. My client doesn't have the option of using pdflib because it's not installed on the hosting company's server.
I've done searches on google, but haven't found any webservices that do this on the fly (ie, that you can call from a script).

HusNu

I am looking for pdflib hosting too. Did you find hosting for pdflib? Did you ask pdflib.com?

HusNu

Weedpacket

Maybe there'd be something at www.adobe.com ? PDF is their format, after all - it seems like an obvious early place to look.