PDF output w/ PHP: FPDF has several advantages over PDFlib. Among them are that it doesn’t need to be compiled in, and has a bunch of high level features, including: automatic page breaks, line breaks, and columning, as well as extensive docs and tutorials online.

Which is not to say that it’s still not a pain in the ass. Developing is especially a pain because 1) Acrobat Reader is a bear to reload and 2) Errors still stream out to Acrobat Reader. I’m debugging with lynx –dump.

Related: TTF2PT1 – True Type to PS Type 1 Converter, t1utils – Type 1 font utilites (does to/from mac conversions!)

[20030303 – Update: Phil recommends PDF::API2 for Perl]