How to print a invoice

[compose]

Hello,

I have printed stationary of invoice formate. Now i am developing an applicon, which will print the values of invoice fields accordingly on invoice paper.

how can i do this?
Please help.

Vineet

[coopster]

You mean you have preprinted invoice forms and you want to load them in your printer and then have your web-based application print information on these forms?

[Habtom]

I think he means that.

In that case, I suggest you generate your reports into a pdf file, to mainitain the lines, the length and the format of the output.

Habtom

[henry0]

Interesting
I never had a need to create a PDF from PHP
would you please dev how one does it

thanks

[coopster]

There are a few different ways to generate PDF's. Basically, you are just writing script instructions to a document. One of the free options is the fpdf class and there are some tutorials listed on their site [fpdf.org...]

[henry0]

Excellent, Thanks

[compose]

Thanx for your reply.

But can we do this with gd library. I try to do it with gd library. I made a transprant gif image same size of invoice format, and then i placed the values of invoice fields on specific cordinates on gif image. Now that gif image contain values to be print on invoice, I think when we wil print it will work fine.

Please suggest.

vineet

[compose]

Please give your suggestion for this.

Vineet

[coopster]

I suppose you could do it that way. What about clarity? Is the image going to good enough for a human to discern? I imagine it is going to be quite large as well (size in bytes). You know, you can place images in a PDF document as well.