Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-20 Thread R!
Hi, At first i must say that is great to know that somebody is working on Zend_Pdf. So what i like to se,  Tables!!!Definitely. I think that Zend_Pdf is quite good even now but lack of tables cause that we still use fpdf. One more thing which will be great is refactoring of drawText fun

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-20 Thread Michał Zieliński
I`m also interested in Zend_Pdf. I`d would also ask if there are any notes/todo lists describing what is planned to do in future releases in Zend_Pdf component? There is much to read about needs but no official info from either Alexander nor other ZF Team member. Thanks in advance for any hints :

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-19 Thread Oz Glen
We are about to embark on a massive PDF project, most of what we need (if not all) is covered by the comprehensive Zend_Pdf updates. What are the expected date for community review and early testing. Are there any other dates you could share ? Is there anything we can do to help expediate this

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-06 Thread Sasa Ebach
Hi Bryce, > Since the FDF is easy to write, and separated from the PDF, > it's pretty easy to populate even complex, multi-page forms. That is very cool. I didn't know about FDF. Thanks for the tip and the link. I will investigate this further. -- sasa

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-06 Thread Martijn Korse
Bryce Lohr-2 wrote: > > Hi Martijn, > [...] > Just FYI, the non-ZF package DomPDF > (http://www.digitaljunkies.ca/dompdf/) can convert HTML to PDF. It has > some limitations, but is still useful for many common situations. > Yea, i know, but as you said: it's not ZF :-) What i meant was that

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-06 Thread Bryce Lohr
Hi Sasa, I've got similarly complex financial assistance forms I need to produce. Until Zend_Pdf has features for easily filling PDF templates, the solution I use is to author the form PDF document completely inside Adobe LiveCycle, making sure to define each fillable field as a real PDF form

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-06 Thread Bryce Lohr
Hi Martijn, Martijn Korse wrote: 2. ability to convert HTML to PDF. This would be a nice to have, since it wouldn't create new possiblities, only an easier way to create PDFs. But of course, for that the Zend-Framework would need something like an HTML-parser. (I've been thinking about submittin

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-06 Thread Sasa Ebach
Hey Willie, nice to see Zend_Pdf progressing. I use it to pre fill an insurance form. Here ist the template: http://www.rosa-kautionsversicherung.de/kautionsversicherung-premium-antrag/antrag.pdf It is quite a beast. Many fields. It is a lot of work to find all the coordinates of the fields,

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-06 Thread Martijn Korse
Recently i have been using it to create flyers via a CMS. All data is loaded from a database and relevant pictures are looked up on the HardDisk. In the past i've used fpdf (or extended versions of it) a lot for: - creating invoices - creating profile-pages (both based on database-data); Two feat

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-05 Thread Karol Grecki
Willie Alberty wrote: > > Kevin and I are about ready to introduce the comprehensive Zend_Pdf > updates I described last week for community review and early testing. > I am working on shoring up the documentation now and could use some > feedback: > >In what ways are you are currently

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-04 Thread Charlie Dover
On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Willie Alberty wrote: In what ways are you are currently using Zend_Pdf? I use it for reporting with mySQL databases as well drawing pie and bar charts natively. -CD

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-04 Thread Sudheer
Willie Alberty wrote: Kevin and I are about ready to introduce the comprehensive Zend_Pdf updates I described last week for community review and early testing. I am working on shoring up the documentation now and could use some feedback: In what ways are you are currently using Zend_Pdf? H

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-04 Thread Bryce Lohr
Hi Willie, I'm not currently using Zend_Pdf, but there are two major use cases that would like to use it for: * Filling a pre-created PDF template. My main use would be for printing check stock. I want to have a PDF document already made with all the layout, and simply replace a few placehol

Re: [fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-08-01 Thread kekiel
Hi! Willie Alberty wrote: > >In what ways are you are currently using Zend_Pdf? > This is one way we use Zend_Pdf: - We open a PDF file which complies the PDF/X-3 Standard. (Made with InDesign.) - We add TIFF-Images - We add some ttf Fonts and Text-Blocks - We save it Purpose is to hav

[fw-general] How are you using Zend_Pdf?

2008-07-31 Thread Willie Alberty
Kevin and I are about ready to introduce the comprehensive Zend_Pdf updates I described last week for community review and early testing. I am working on shoring up the documentation now and could use some feedback: In what ways are you are currently using Zend_Pdf? I don't necessarily n