Requirements
Precisions for step 2:
- aptitude install php-pear
- peardev install pecl/pdflib
Installation
This » PECL extension is not bundled with PHP. Information for installing this PECL extension may be found in the manual chapter titled Installation of PECL extensions. Additional information such as new releases, downloads, source files, maintainer information, and a CHANGELOG, can be located here: » http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib.
To get these functions to work in PHP < 4.3.9, you have to compile PHP with --with-pdflib[=DIR] . DIR is the PDFlib base install directory, defaults to /usr/local.
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Installation
Jean-Charles Papin
17-Jun-2011 08:07
Igor Moiseev
02-Dec-2009 03:21
Brief installation notes. In the spite of the commercialization of libpdf library this is the way to use it in the lite mode.
System: Ubuntu 8.04 + php5.2
Step 1: PDFlib http://www.pdflib.com/
download PDFlib-Lite: http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/
extract: tar -xzvf PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX.tar.gz
compile: cd PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX && ./configure && make && make install
Step 2: Pecl for PDFlib http://pecl.php.net/package/pdflib
install:
install dependences: phpize (php5-dev package)
pecl install pdflib
path to pdflib installation? :/usr/local
Step 3: php.ini
extension=pdf.so
Step 4:
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
That's it.
[Edited by RQuadling 2010/07/13 - Updated PDFlibe-Lite URL]
[Edit by danbrown AT php DOT net: Contains a typofix by "Anonymous" on 11-AUG-2010.]