{"id":22,"date":"2007-10-17T12:56:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/great-commercial-libraries-for-web-development\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T18:57:55","slug":"great-commercial-libraries-for-web-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/17\/great-commercial-libraries-for-web-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Great commercial libraries for web development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m generally an Open Source enthusiast, sometimes you just need something better &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princexml.com\/\">Prince XML<\/a> &#8211; if you need to create lots of PDFs, you probably need this.  It converts HTML to PDFs really fast and accurately.  They&#8217;ve even used it to publish a book.  There is an open source alternatives which may suite you: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tufat.com\/s_html2ps_html2pdf.htm\">tufat html2pdf<\/a> &#8211; but it isn&#8217;t as powerful, is really slow, and takes up a lot of memory.  Good for small scale projects.  I&#8217;ve actually used it quite a bit, but eventually the requirements of my projects grew beyond what could be done with it.  (I talked with the devs about sponsoring the changes I needed, but they felt it would be impossible meet my requirements and recommended that I get Prince XML instead.)  Prince XML comes as a command line binary, so it&#8217;s easy to integrate it with any language.  &#8220;prince in.html out.pdf&#8221; is all it takes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advsofteng.com\/\">Chart Director<\/a> &#8211; makes building graphical charts for your website both fun and beautiful.  I haven&#8217;t really come across any open source alternatives that I cared for.  The API is quite nice and includes just about everything I need.  It comes with bindings for all common languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m generally an Open Source enthusiast, sometimes you just need something better &#8230; Prince XML &#8211; if you need to create lots of PDFs, you probably need this. It converts HTML to PDFs really fast and accurately. They&#8217;ve even used it to publish a book. There is an open source alternatives which may suite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}