- TCPDF
Infobox Software
name = TCPDF
caption = TCPDF Logo
author = [http://nicolaasuni.tecnick.com Nicola Asuni]
released = 2005-01-06
latest release version = 4.0.024
latest release date = 2008-09-12
frequently_updated = yes
programming language =PHP
operating system =Cross-platform
genre =Software Library
license = LGPL
website = [http://www.tcpdf.org/ www.tcpdf.org]TCPDF is a popular
open source PHP class for generatingPDF documents.
TCPDF is supported and already included on popularPHP -based CMS and applications (i.e.Joomla ,Drupal ,Moodle ,phpMyAdmin ,TCExam ,Xoops , ...).This class was originally derived in 2002 from the Public Domain FPDF class by Olivier Plathey and now it is freely used all over the world by millions of people.
Note: "On 25 Aug 2008, TCPDF project was ranked 52 over more than 180,000 projects hosted on the SourceForge repository".
Main Features
* no external libraries are required;
* supports all ISO page formats;
* supports UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left languages;
* supports document encryption;
* includes methods to publish some (x)HTML code;
* includes graphic and transformation methods;
* includes bookmarks;
* includes Javascript and forms support;
* includes a method to print various barcode formats;
* supports TrueTypeUnicode, OpenTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1 and CID-0 fonts;
* supports custom page formats, margins and units of measure;
* includes methods for page header and footer management;
* supports automatic page break;
* supports automatic page numbering and page groups;
* supports automatic line break and text justification;
* supports JPEG and PNG images whitout GD library and all images supported by GD (GD, GD2, GD2PART, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, XBM, XPM);
* supports stroke and clipping mode for text;
* supports clipping masks;
* supports Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Spot colors and transparency;
* supports links and annotations;
* supports page compression (requires zlib extension);
* supports user rights management so Adobe Reader users can save filled-in copies of forms they completeExternal links
* [http://www.tcpdf.org/ http://www.tcpdf.org/ - Official TCPDF website]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/ TCPDF Project at Sourceforge]
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