shozdeh at yahoo dot com (2012-09-24 16:21:37)

because I confused in step 2 I write this comment:
for installing following this instruction step by step:
download PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX form first post...
open terminal and type:
$ cd download folder...
$ sudo tar -xzvf PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX.tar.gz
# cd PDFlib-Lite-X.X.XpX
# ./configure
# make
# make install
next:
# apt-get install php5-dev : online installation if not installed
# apt-get install php-pear : online installation if not installed
# pecl install pdflib : online installation
The ask be: 'path to pdflib installation? : ' enter '/usr/local'
# gedit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
add 'extension=pdf.so in' 1 line
# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload OR /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Should work! for test you can write "$p = new PDF_new();" in a file.

Jean-Charles Papin (2011-06-17 08:07:24)

Precisions for step 2:
- aptitude install php-pear
- peardev install pecl/pdflib

Igor Moiseev (2009-12-02 03:21:08)

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.]