I need to make a number of lengthy documents avaialble to people via my site. I would like to be able to have them be able to simply click on a “download” button or have a pdf file version open for them. What coding do I need to use to make this possible?
@ray326Feb 12.2005 — #I'm not sure of what your real request is but it sounds like "how do I convert some documents to PDF?" If that's the case I'd recommend one of two free options. OpenOffice can directly export its documents in PDF and works almost perfectly with MS Office documents. You can also use PDFCreator to create PDFs from any application. It acts as a printer driver so you just install it, fire up your app and File/Print to the "PDF Creator" printer.
@Stephen_PhilbinFeb 12.2005 — #Maybe a perfect excuse for the combination of php mysql and xml?
Store xml in a database that can be retrieved and converted by php? Minimal storage, maximum speed, maximum effect? I mean you could store one lot of data and knock it out as XML, HTML, XHTML, text, PDF, spreadsheet, just about anything really.