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fpdf.org — FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. The advantage is that PDFlib requires a fee for a commercial usage. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 16, 2006

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  • bepo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4>>masterr
    From the FAQ: "There is no usage restriction. You may embed it freely in your application (commercial or not), with or without modification. You may redistribute it, too."

    Just because the author doesn't use the GPL it's only free as in beer? This appears to be LESS restrictive than the GPL.
  • Metal_Hurlant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Old, yet good.
    There are other PDF generation libraries, some of which are actually shipped with the standard PDF distribution.
    However, those libraries are only free as in beer.

    FPDF stands as an actually Free library for PDF generation from PHP.

    I wrote a mini-language to generate PDF out of simple HTML-like documents on top of FPDF once. ( http://pdml.sf.net/ )
  • Gnascher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been using ezPDF for quite a while, and after having tried several others, it's simply the best.

    http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

    Granted the PDFlib does a bit more ... but ezPDF is worlds easier to actually implement. After reading the FPDF documentation, FPDF doesn't even come close to the capabilities of ezPDF.

    Thank you all for offering little APPLICATIONS that create PDFs from various document types ... but those are of very little use to a programmer, when you need something that can create PDFs on the fly from dynamic data. I use them quite extensively for creating invoices from shopping cart checkout.
  • cavicster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is a nice library Unfortunately, there has not been a new release in awhile.
  • Weems, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this might be more suitable were it in the programming section as it is a php class after all
  • dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0htmldoc does the same thing? html to pdf, and it's been free for years.
  • protocoI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0metal_hurlant:
    Free beer?
    http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70
  • SiliconWolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There is also an ASP translation available:

    http://www.aspxnet.it/public/default.asp

    Documentation is only available in Italian, but the function calls are pretty much identical to the PHP ones, so I just use the docs from the PHP version.
  • blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"
    It's unfortunate about the whole . . . you know . . . PHP part.
    "
    And why is that exactly?
  • link470, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, thats some awsome php coding goin down there.....
  • offsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How is this current news? The last release of this software was over 1 year ago.
  • Fallout75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just use the Free Program "Primo PDF"
    http://www.primopdf.com
  • MasteRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Free as in beer only. Not GPL.
  • chime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Old news for programmers.

    Here's a plug for my library nevertheless:

    http://chir.ag/tech/download/pdfb/ - PDFB Library - Barcodes in Dynamic PDFs

  • ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's another free alternative PDFLib called Panda: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/panda
  • Breadstick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I used FPDF on www.usedarticles.com to convert the html version of the articles to the pdf version.

    http://www.usedarticles.com/view/computers-and-internet/211.html - and -
    http://www.usedarticles.com/print/computers-and-internet/211.pdf
  • psylence, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"bepo: Just because the author doesn't use the GPL it's only free as in beer? This appears to be LESS restrictive than the GPL."

    Umm, kinda by definition it's only free as in beer when it doesn't use a GPL or similar license... Less restrictive than the GPL only benefits those who want to take the code and not contribute back. The "horrible" restrictions the GPL places promote contribution and overall improvement of the software for everyone.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0It's unfortunate about the whole . . . you know . . . PHP part.
  • pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0^^^ cool to first comment's website
  • hankosky, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Much better software - "http://digg.com/software/PDFCreator"

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