TableTools PDF export for mailing / avery labels

tomduke

Hi all,

Has anyone managed to create a custom PDF export for avery style mailing labels (yes the client still posts things!). If not does anyone have any pointers about where I start sorting this out.

Thanks
- Tom

allan

Hi Tom,

I'd very much suggest using a server-side script to do this. AlivePDF appears to be no longer supported by its author, and you'll find PDF creation libraries (and probably templates) much easier to use.

What I've been doing recently is using HTML and CSS to create the document needed and then wkhtmltopdf to convert from HTML to PDF: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ . Your milage might vary, but I found that much faster than messing around with PDF creation APIs!

Regards,
Allan

tomduke

Allan,

Hi - thanks - I'll check out wkhtmltopdf.

- Tom

psharp

If you have a little time, you can create PDF documents from HTML using this library.

We currently use this for our reports and it works very well.

http://www.tcpdf.org/