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This is a great class to access the pdfPlayer API, but what the community really needs is the ability to have a robust html2pdf solution that doesn't require passing data to a third party.

The problem is Adobe licensing requirements so that PHP is not able to provide the support we all would like. pdfLib is available, however if I remember my numbers correctly it costs around $15K a year to include it in a distributed package which effectively eliminate the free open source community.

Dave

I dont think its a problem with a license fee, I believe, at the moment, nobody wants to put in the time to extend fpdf with the latest standards. html2fpdf was put out 10 years ago, and works great if you code the html in 2005 standards.

I am fairly certain that licensing is why PHP does not have native support for PDF. I do not know for sure why fpdf has become legacy, my guess would be licensing issues as well since work on it really slowed when Adobe started cracking down on infringement. Once again, this is all speculation since I am not an Adobe insider.

I still use fpdf for projects that I control the markup, and it does just fine. It is the new and changing web standards that create an issue for me, so if I have clients on shared hosting that want up to date conversion, I will use my class with the pdfLayer API. If they can afford $5K to $7K annually, there are other libraries out there.

These prices are all high because of the high licensing charged by Adobe.

Dave