Hello Daniel and Bill
FPDF is an outstanding library, if you want to generate PDF files programmatically.
However, there are many developers, who find this approach very time consuming.
Hence, we set about creating a new approach, in which you create a template in a word processing application and then simply populate that template in PHP.
This approach is considerably less time consuming and really easy to implement.
The result is the Zend_Service_LiveDocx_* family of components.
If you need any help, simply contact me at:
phplivedocx.org/contact/
I am only too happy to assist :-)
Jonathan