29 lines
1.3 KiB
PHP
29 lines
1.3 KiB
PHP
<?php include("head.inc"); ?>
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<a name="overview"> </a>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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<p>dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly)
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CSS2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is
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a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets,
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inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It
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also supports most presentational HTML attributes.</p>
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<p>PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib (<a
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href="http://www.pdflib.com">www.pdflib.com</a>) or by a bundled
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version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro (<a
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href="http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/">www.ros.co.nz/pdf</a>). (Some
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performance related changes have been made to the R&OS class,
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however). In order to use PDFLib with dompdf, the PDFLib PECL
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extension is required. Using PDFLib improves performance and reduces
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the memory requirements of dompdf somewhat, while the R&OS CPDF class,
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though slightly slower, eliminates any dependencies on external PDF
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libraries.</p>
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<p>Please note that dompdf works only with PHP 5. There are no plans for
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a PHP 4 port. If your web host does not offer PHP 5, I suggest either pestering
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them, or setting up your own PHP 5 box and using it to run dompdf. Your scripts
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on your web host can redirect PDF requests to your PHP 5 box.</p>
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<?php include("foot.inc"); ?>
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