Support of dompdf 0.6.0
peterx - August 18, 2009 - 11:13
| Project: | Printer, e-mail and PDF versions |
| Version: | 6.x-1.10 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Dompdf has a new release on the way: http://groups.google.com/group/dompdf/browse_thread/thread/702a7b773e14e1ef
Currently it is in alpha status. Back when I last tried dompdf and tcpdf side by side, dompdf did what I wanted and tcpdf did not. Now dompdf is out of date, possibly not PHP 5.3 compatible, and probably not a good bet for a new site. If the next release is already in alpha and on the way to beta, dompdf could be back as a contender. Are there any dompdf users testing the alpha version or planning to test the beta version?
#1
I am waiting for a beta version..
#2
I installed 0.5.1 on our website. I had to hack it to be more tolerant of CSS it doesn't understand (a couple of lines to keep it from spewing errors), but the output, in my opinion, blows TCPDF away. For the first time I was able to get an accurate printer & PDF version of our pages out.
I certainly hope they continue to work on this.
#3
Oops, I guess I do have 0.5.2 alpha installed. I was a little confused because I was pretty sure that I had put the version on that patched the 2008 vulnerability.
It looks like they haven't changed the version identifier in 0.5.2, yet.
So, to answer your question, "Yes, I am using 0.5.2 on our live website, and so far it seems to be working fine."
#4
dompdf 0.5.2 will add UTF-8 support. Thus I would suggest to update the description of the module project page saying "No Unicode support (only ISO-8859-1)", "Not maintained (last release v0.5.1 in 2006-07-07)" and "not recommended for general use".
#5
I tried 0.5.2 alpha 1 as described in http://drupal.org/node/558170 to fix missing PNG images in PDFs. The PDFs remained missing and Jpegs disappeared as well.
#6
The successor of dompdf 0.5.1 will now be 0.6.0 (instead of 0.5.2). There is an alpha 2 out. Has anybody already tested it?
#7
I just installed and tried out http://dompdf.googlecode.com/files/dompdf_0-6-0_alpha2.zip
Running in a bluehost.com shared host with Drupal 6.15 and it works just fine for the nodes.
Only change to the installation directions is to update the user permissions... I already added that to the first page of the installation directions online for print module.
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