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Headache with this programming problem. (PHP, Tiff images and Duplex printers)

Answer 1

+1 A:

So you want to generate a 2-page PDF which consists of a tiff image on each page?

Perhaps the following links will be of interest:

http://www.fpdf.org/

http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/php_tiff2pdf/

Then you can just flush the PDF to the browser.

Sbm007 2010-01-16 15:24:51

Answer 2

A:

Instead of a pdf document you could also use an html document with page-break-before css properties. e.g. try

<html>
  <head><title>...</title></head>
  <body>
    <div><img src="http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png" /></div>
    <div style="page-break-before:always;"><img src="http://sstatic.net/so/img/logo.png" /></div>
  </body>
</html>

and then go to the print preview in your browser.

VolkerK 2010-01-16 15:40:35

That sounds great.But the problem is that Tiff gets displayed on all the browser (not the web page). Do you know maybe hoy to display two tiffs at the same place.

Sheldon 2010-01-16 15:52:24

Note sure what you're asking for, but do you mean something like `<img src="script.php?id=1234" /> .... <img src="script.php?id=1235" />`?

VolkerK 2010-01-16 16:07:20

That works with JPEG and PNG but not with TIFF cause browser doesn't know how to handle it. It just ask for download when fount the first one. And with a plugin like AlternaTIFF, the plugin load the first also.

Sheldon 2010-01-16 18:01:28

dang, you're right ...haven't thought of that :(

VolkerK 2010-01-17 06:01:32

Answer 3

+1 A:

Are you stuck with PHP? If you can work with ASP.NET, my company has a set of tools that will display and print TIFF images from AJAX controls as well as code that will generate self-printing PDF files. If you did the latter, you could keep your web work in PHP and hook up to a .NET service that takes N tiff files and generates a single printable PDF.

To give you a sense of what that would look like, the C# code to take two tiff images and convert to PDF would be:

FileSystemImageSource images = new FileSystemImageSource(pathToTiff1, pathToTiff2);
PdfEncoder encoder = new PdfEncoder();
encoder.CreateSelfPrintingPdf = true;
encoder.Save(outputStream, images, null);

plinth 2010-01-20 16:06:23

I'll give it a try, thank you very much.

Sheldon 2010-01-20 16:14:12

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