Create PDF in PHP, ASP,. NET, Java, C # PDFarm

The creation of documents such as invoices, bills of lading, reports or documents can be edited online in PDF format is one of the most requested features for developers of applications or Web sites

Being the most widely used PDF format for the exchange of documents can not be changed, you must provide developers with simple tools for the dynamic generation of such documents.

In this present PDFarm of ease of use, software for dynamic creation of PDF, which is the official website at:

http://www.pdfarm.net/

It is a software with different licenses depending on the application you want to make and to handle the workload, as we shall see later.

PDFarm allows, thanks to its metalanguage called PHTML, of which we will see some examples, PDF layout to generate very complex with a few lines of code, allowing easy upgrades through PHTML change at any time, and advanced graphics capabilities such as the management of the header and footer, editable fields, images, links, fonts and so on.

The software, developed in Java can be integrated into all applications developed with any programming language, first of all the most used on the Web, or PHP and ASP as well. NET, Java, C #, Perl, Python and others.

Let's see an example layout PDF PDFarm developed and its metalanguage PHTML.

As you can see from the following excerpt, the PHTML is an HTML-like:

  



 



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The complete guide to PHTML with complete examples can be found at the following address:

http://www.pdfarm.net/tutorial/tutorial.html

We can use the live demo of PDFarm to make our tests at the following address:

http://www.pdfarm.net/demo.php

Once you understand how to develop a layout PDF, we will integrate PDFarm in our application.

The full tutorial for managing PDF documents through integration of PDFarm with your favorite server-side language, is available at:

http://www.pdfarm.net/tutorial/integrazioni.html

Going back now on licenses. PDFarm is available in two versions: Web Services and Server Edition.

To use PDFarm Web Hosting Service is a must have at least one that supports the server-side Web programming languages ​​listed above, with which it is possible to make a call to the remote HTTP server PDFarm.

Making a call HTTP (S) PDFarm POST to the server, in which key parameters must be specified PDFarm PHTML and content, it gets its PDF document.

To use PDFarm Server Edition, you must have a computer with an operating system MS Windows ®, Linux, Solaris ®, or other, that supports and which is installed Sun Java Platform Standard Edition Version 1.5.0 or later, also known as Sun Java SE 5.

This product, unlike the version of Web Services is a software package that includes the entire PDFarm generator to be installed on your server, or on a PC used as a gateway to PDF generation.

To activate PDFarm Server Edition is easy just follow the installation wizard executable directly from the command line of your server.