How to let DomPDF and Zend Framework play along
August 27th, 2009
For a recent project, I had to generate a PDF for a catalog. Since I’m using Zend Framework for my development, first thing that sprang in mind was Zend_Pdf. After some investigation, I found it too “difficult” to use. Flexible though that component is, I didn’t feel much for using coordinates to draw each and every line and text of that PDF. So I went to find another solution: DomPDF. DomPDF can generates PDF output, from HTML input. Exactly what I wanted and needed. It was however quite tricky to get it working. If you also have problems with this, read on!
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