Server Side PDF Generation

We've got a restaurant client who has menus on their web site. The web site conte开发者_如何学Cnt is all dynamically generated from a CMS. All the menus also have links to download a PDF. Right now, it's a manual process of creating/updating the document in InDesign, exporting as a PDF and overwriting the old file on the server.

Ideally it'd be able to automatically generate a PDF that looks similar to if someone on a Mac printed and saved as a PDF.

We're looking for a way for the process to be more animated. We've looked at both f-pdf & HTML2PDF, but neither one do exactly what we want. Any ideas or suggestions?

Since you're working in PHP, have you tried TCPDF?

Use LibreOffice:

soffice.exe --headless --convert-to pdf file.xls

I advice you to use FPDF

We are using tcpdf. Its not the easiest to use but the result is pretty good.

• for "generic convertions with LibreOffice/OpenOffice", see also Universal Network Objects (UNO): there are Python, Java, etc. bridges for use it. There are applications for simplify the use for convertions, see Docvert and JODConverter (jODconverter and pyODconverter).

• for "HTML to PDF" using CSS2 and CSS3, see also PrinceXML, a professional conversor.

All of then can be called as web-service or exec by PHP.