To see if I can start work on a new project, I need to make sure this is at all possible :
My app will “print” on the server to a PDF file, then offer the user to download it so he can print on his local printer with all the precision required.
I am thinking about printing to a picture, then save it to disk, and afterwards use Gimp or another Linux utility installed on the same server as the app to convert that to PDF prior to offer the download.
Has anybody already done such a thing ? Is the conversion process OK and would you use another utility ? Do you think I am on the right track ?
I would suggest to use our excellent DynaPDF plugin. Started edition is good enough to create a PDF on server with images, vector graphics and embedded fonts.
On your web site, you mention DynaPDF to work for Mac, Windows and Linux, but not Web. Johnny Harris mentions it works fine with Web (which is Linux anyway). Maybe you should add that to your page.
Okay. But still I think web is just a an app type while Mac, Win and Linux are platforms. So if plugin runs on Mac, it should often also run on a web app on a Mac.