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Xhtml2pdf is a small... no ok it's not that small. So, xhtml2pdf is a PHP class based on the excellent FPDF class, which allows to convert xhtml files to pdf files, using a css file. In fact what's really great about it is that it doesn't require any additionnal program or library, so it should work on almost every webhost. What for? I don't know. In fact, I began to code this for fun, because it could be done and had never been before. But as I don't like not to finish such a beautiful piece of code, I did some improvement to my first code :D.

Greaat !

In fact, no.. Xhtml2pdf (I'm really bad at finding new names to my projects :D) may NOT be the perfect program you are looking for. So here is what it does (more precisely, what it does NOT do) so I won't get so much complaints later.

  1. It can NOT convert HTML files, and it never will. It's easy (hum, that's relative) to parse xhtml. But parsing a HTML file is really not that easy. Many program do it, I don't.
  2. It implements only VERY FEW css properties. Why? Because Fpdf has at this time quite a lot of limitations. And I _really_ don't want to recode FPDF. You can get the supported properties and values here.
  3. Some HTML elements are actually not implemented, like tables or pictures. They might be soon, but maybe with some simplification.
  4. Xhtml2pdf does NOT (actually..) read the presentation attributes of the html elements. All presentation data should be put in a separate css file.

So, now you know what xhtml2pdf can NOT do. But, assumed all these problems, it can dynamically generate really nice simple pdf files, easily customisable with a simple css file :).

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