Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : dompdf Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : Benj Carson <benjcar...@digitaljunkies.ca> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : CSS2.1 compliant HTML to PDF converter written in PHP
dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib (http://www.pdflib.com) or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf). (Some performance related changes have been made to the R&OS class, however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class, though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF libraries. The Drupal print module can use either this or tcpdf (ITP: #495985) to generate PDFs, which is why I am filing this RFP. Packaging notes: * as mentioned in the description, rendering requires either PDFLib (http://www.pdflib.com) or R&OS CPDF class (http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf). * PDFLib is non-free. They have a "Free Software" version on their website, but it restricts commercial use (I sent them email pointing out this problem) http://www.pdflib.com/download/free-software/pdflib-lite-7/ * R&OS is public domain software. I filed an RFP #567927 * Also requires http://ttf2pt1.sourceforge.net/, this is already in Debian as "ttf2pt1". * The webpage indicates you might want to have the Microsoft core fonts installed http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/. This is just an installer that installs the MS fonts, it's available in Debian as "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" but it's in contrib due to the non-freeness of the fonts, so we wouldn't want dompdf to depend on it or it would need to go in contrib as well. But maybe it could still use those fonts if they were available. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart tagg...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
