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I am requesting instruction on the basic structure/architecture of the pdf generation system you are employing in order to create some custom pdf reports.
If you are willing I would be able to send you all that I create for possible inclusion in your product.
I understand that all custom scripts would be overwritten with every update requiring us to re-upload them.
I am an experienced programer.We use the fpdf.org PDF generation script to create PDFs.
The US uses different page sizes from the rest of the world, so page size is stored in a WordPress option obtainable from get_option(‘church_admin_pdf_size’);
If you look at pdf-creator.php you will see the other PDF scripts. Some of the scripts are quite old and clunky – church_admin_tickets_pdf() is a better example.The PDFs are generated on the fly as caching them is a security vulnerability for snoopers.
They are called from church_admin_download() in index.php and I use WordPress nonces to ensure they are only generated by clicking links created on the site.One issue with PDF creation is accents (diacritics) etc. WordPress sites are usually UTF-8 character encoded which doesn’t work in PDFs which use a different encoding. I’ve tried various ways of sorting the issue to work worldwide. The slightly clunky but viable solution is to escape all text to be output with urldecode(church_admin_encode()). An example is line 59 of pdf-creator.php
Send them over once done as they may be worth including for everyone!
In reading the docs for FPDF I found that there is a class/script called tFPDF that solves the UTF-8 unicode problem.
http://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script92.php
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