Creating PDF Documents

PDFlib License

The Aladdin Free Public License allows the use of PDFlib for:

• Developing any non-commercial software provided source code is available

• Personal use

• Redistribute PDFlib

Commercial license required for any commercial use including commercial web services.

Alternatives

• FreePDFlib (open source) by Thomas Szadel

• ClibPDF (terms similar to pdflib)

Why use PDF with PHP?

• Invoices for e-commerce sites

• Report generation

• Anything that requires precise control over printable output