On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 09:23:02AM -0500, Steve Staples wrote: [snip] > > Personally, I use FPDF [1] to generate PDF's on the fly. It has a lot > of "addons" that people have created, and some of those, are barcodes. > use it to generate shipping/packing labels for a client, and it creates > about 1000+ at a time, each containing 5 code128, and 1 QR code (on the > same label). I've used the FPDF with the rendering that includes the > image from memory (as i have another app that creates all the barcodes > in memory). > > Anyway, I would look into that if pdf is the way you're going. There is > also html2pdf, but if you're looking for exact specifications, and > sizes, then I wouldn't personally use pure CSS, i would create my own > PDF. my shipping labels take < 20 seconds to create a 1500page pdf, > with all those barcodes, so creating a 30 label page, i can't see taking > more than 1 second to do. Projects like TCPDF and others are often recommended when PDFs are needed. Others besides FPDF are much more featureful. However, every one I've encountered is larger and heavier than FPDF. If you just need straight ahead PDFs without a lot of bells and whistles, I'd recommend FPDF. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
