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Phoca PDF 
Version
1.0.0
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
13
Favoured
11
License
GPL
Non-Commercial
Type
Views
14877
Date Added
24 February 2009
The whole Phoca PDF framework contains:
* Phoca PDF component
* Phoca PDF fonts
* Phoca PDF plugins
See more details here:
http://www.phoca.cz/phocapdf
IMPORTANT:
* Phoca PDF requires PHP 5 version installed on your server (because of newest TCPDF library)
* You can set e.g. footer or header information with help of HTML text editor (like FCK, TinyMCE, JCE,...), but be aware because not all HTML tags and attributes, wich an editor produces, are supported in PDF
* HTML code of your documents should be valid
* You can set different parameters for your PDF document, so after setting these parameters you should test creating of your PDF documents because of possible conflicts caused by setting some extra values (e.g. setting of small PDF format x large font size x large line height, etc...)
* You can set different font types for different parts of document (content, header, footer) but be aware, because PDF stores information about font types. UTF-8 fonts are supported and after storing information about all font types the size of PDF document can increase markedly
* CREATING PDF IS NOT SO SMOOTH AS CREATING HTML OUTPUT. PDF DOCUMENT IS NOT RENDERED IF IT DOESN'T GET CORRECTLY CREATED DOCUMENT HEADER. For successfully PDF creating, the site should not render any PHP error messages or any bad encoding characters before rendering PDF. If you get blank page while PDF creating, mostly this is caused by above described problems. In such case try to see your error log or check the encoding of included PHP files.
byDiveNSail on September 22, 2009
5 stars: I need this.
1 star: It needs to be worked on, to make it reliable and stable - then I'll re-install it.
1 star: It needs to be worked on, to make it reliable and stable - then I'll re-install it.
Owner's reply
Hi, thank you for your review.
If you know some bugs which are caused by script not by e.g. server, please let me know them, so I can fix them.
Thank you, Jan
bycomeaus on August 17, 2009
Good product ... a product that helped us bridge the PDF gap. A good product because a bit more instructions would be nice. Otherwise it would be an excellent product ( Forum support was good as well.)
byjoomlasingh on July 15, 2009
I installed the component and the plugin on my website. I am sure its an excellent plugin, but when I activate the plugin my website goes blank. I am using PHP 5.2.9. Tried to go through the documentation but it didnt help either. Is there something else I need to do before I can start using this?
Owner's reply
Hi, this should be a question on forum. Please visit Phoca Forum so we can solve this issue.
Jan
byGenkaiNashi on July 11, 2009
This is a great PDF component to replace the fair Joomla PDF component. For some reason the built-in PDF couldn't handle tables and formatting, it always broke the formatting. Phoca PDF manages to keep the formatting which is really great. However, I do wish there were more fonts available or that we can install the fonts that are used on the site. Otherwise, this is an excellent component.
Owner's reply
Hi, thank you for your review. In Phoca PDF, there is a font manager and you can install every font you need (this font needs to be ready for installing under Phoca PDF, ask on Phoca Forum how to do such font package)
Thank you, Jan
bysunung on May 10, 2009
PDF Documents created by this component have precious output. Good job!