Dynamically merge to pdf or Fireworks

Can anyone point me in the right direction re. merging
dynamic data from a php mySQL site into pdf or Fireworks templates
or forms? For example, QuickBooks online prints all of its checks,
invoices and forms by merging input data into pdfs for printing.
The results are really nice. How is this done? What do I need to
buy, Acrobat?

On 07 Apr 2007 in macromedia.dreamweaver, 99hippo wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the right direction re. merging
dynamic data
> from a php mySQL site into pdf or Fireworks templates or
forms? For
> example, QuickBooks online prints all of its checks,
invoices and
> forms by merging input data into pdfs for printing. The
results are
> really nice. How is this done? What do I need to buy,
Acrobat?
Well, yes and no. This may or may not be a web development
question.
- If you want to generate the PDFs so that visitors to your
site can
get them, you'll need some kind of server component. If it's
installed, PHP has one available:
http://www.php.net/pdf
If the pdfs are for your own use, you have a few options,
depending on
how you create them.
- If they're coming out of a word processing file, a number
of word
processing applications are set up to generate PDFs directly.
Corel's
WordPerfect (
http://wordperfect.com/) and
OpenOffice.org Writer
http://openoffice.org/) both
generate PDFs. I'm not sure about OOo's
ability to do merge documents, but I'm sure it's built in.
- If you're using Word, or some other application which
doesn't support
the direct creation of PDFs, you'll need to buy Acrobat (or
some other
third party app which creates PDFs).
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/contact.php

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