[petesalty]

I can easily see a use for this. I'm doing a pro bono project for a small non profit, and part of the project requires generating simple PDF reports. They don't have any money so we need to keep it low cost.

One of the ways of doing this is to host it on a simple shared server (it's not a heavily used app).

Downside of this is that it's unlikely we'll be able to use any of the PDF tools I've used in the past (since they need to be installed). This should work fine for our purposes.

Thanks, I was wondering how I'd get around this.

To all those who were dissing this because they couldn't immediately see a use for it, try to have a more open mind.

[wdewind]

I'm also developing an HTML->PDF feature and jumped when I saw this! I tried smashingmag.com - which is funny because i meant smashingmagazine.com but actually smashingmag.com is some japanese site. either way i got back a totally blank pdf - maybe japanese character set is to blame?

One other caveat is that having the ability to view flash would be awesome as well. main function of pdf as i understand it is to create a document that PRINTS completely identically on every setup, so frequently people are going to want to print flash, which is already a huge pain in the ass. Unfortunately it looks like it blanks out completely if there is flash on the page (2advanced.net)

if you could solve that i would start paying tomorrow.

[sjs382]

mpdf is really nice if you care about page breaks and the like...