FPDF is a PHP class which allows the creation of PDF documents.
Some of the advantages of FPDF document generation are:
- Setting of measure units, page format and margins
- Management of header and footer area of the page
- Automatic page breaks
- Automatic line breaks and text spacing
- Image support for JPEG and PNG
- Color management
- Hyperlink management
- TrueType, Type1 and encryption support
- Page compression
PDF
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a platform-independent file format for documents.
PDF documents / files can be generated from texts, images and graphics - individually or mixed. The creator of a PDF file can protect it from many forms of misuse by activating the security mechanisms of the PDF. This should, among other features, provide better copyright protection and prevent unauthorized access by using encryption. It is possible to configure whether it should be possible to copy content from the PDF document.
PDF files display content in the layout as defined by the generating program, independent from printer settings and preconfiguration, closely true to the original document. When the generated document must be as true as possible to the original, this is one of the crucial advantages of PDF, compared to advanced definition and description languages such as SGML, HTML and XML |
