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Re: PDF [message #21331 is a reply to message #21328]

Thu, 25 November 2004 16:20

Anonymous

I'm not sure if I agree that it would make it impractical. The PDF functionality (I've worked with both libpdf and fpdf class lib) never seemed to be a slow process in either case..

Sure, if one were to run FudForum on a very old and slow machine, yes it would be too slow to utilize since any PDF generation is horribly slow because it is a CPU intensive task.

For a very small project of my own, I tried out implementing the fpdf class, and I was surprised to see that, not only was it easy to implement (but somewhat of a pain to get the grid lines where you want them), it was rather robust.

The performance hit that a PDF class lib has is when it needs to generate a rather complex page, and the resulting pages from FudForum are straightforward, clean, and, generally not complex. :) (one of the things I like about FudForum as a whole!)

Anyhow, it was just a thought.. I didn't know if anyone had ever considered it...

Thanks for the response!

Ilia wrote on Thu, 25 November 2004 08:59

Good question :)

Generating PDF is already a fairly slow process even when a PHP extension is used. Using a PHP class (much much slower) would only worsen the process and make this impractical on any significant scale.

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		PDF By: rwest on Thu, 25 November 2004 03:39
		Re: PDF By: Ilia on Thu, 25 November 2004 13:59
		Re: PDF By: Anonymous on Thu, 25 November 2004 16:20
		Re: PDF By: Ilia on Thu, 25 November 2004 17:26
		Re: PDF By: rwest on Thu, 25 November 2004 19:51
		Re: PDF By: Ilia on Thu, 25 November 2004 20:04
		Re: PDF By: rwest on Fri, 26 November 2004 03:00
		Re: PDF By: Ilia on Fri, 26 November 2004 03:42
		Re: PDF By: Anonymous on Fri, 26 November 2004 04:01
		Re: PDF By: rwest on Fri, 26 November 2004 04:01
		Re: PDF By: Ilia on Mon, 29 November 2004 16:08
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