I love when API’s just work: we’ve started using FPDF to generate PDF reports and its working out quite well indeed. To be exact, we use it to modify existing PDF’s – our reports start life in Word, are then saved as PDF files, and then additional content is injected into the user generated documents via FPDF magic.
It allows us to give the user a tangible detailed report that can be printed off and studied. For example, one of the calculations screens in our Redundancy Calculator (still under development) looks as follows:
And here’s a sample of how the a section of that information looks in the generated PDF (which is both a combination of the help and results):
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