.:[ Tek Squad ]:.: December 2008

What is FPDF?

FPDF is a PHP class which allows to generate PDF files with pure PHP, that is to say without using the PDFlib library. F from FPDF stands for Free: you may use it for any kind of usage and modify it to suit your needs.

FPDF has other advantages: high level functions. Here is a list of its main features:

* Choice of measure unit, page format and margins
* Page header and footer management
* Automatic page break
* Automatic line break and text justification
* Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF)
* Colors
* Links
* TrueType, Type1 and encoding support
* Page compression

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FPDF requires no extension (except zlib to activate compression and GD for GIF support) and works with PHP4 and PHP5.

The tutorials will give you a quick start. The complete online documentation is here and download area is there. It is strongly advised to read the FAQ which lists the most common questions and issues.

A script section is available and provides some useful extensions (such as bookmarks, rotations, tables, barcodes...).
What languages can I use?

The class can produce documents in many languages other than the Western European ones: Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Baltic and Thai, provided you own TrueType or Type1 fonts with the desired character set. Chinese, Japanese and Korean are supported too.
What about performance?

Of course, the generation speed of the document is less than with PDFlib. However, the performance penalty keeps very reasonable and suits in most cases, unless your documents are particularly complex or heavy.

For any remark, question or problem, you can leave a message on the forum.

You can write to me here.

Flash Kit
Flash Kit has an ever growing list of shareware and freeware SoundFX
for download. It provides a powerful searching, excellent organisation
and easy real time previews make this the most advanced Sound FX
download site on the net! mp3 and flashtrak versions of all effects as
well!
Audio Micro
AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of user-generated micro
stock music, sound effects, production music, production elements and
music cues. Finally, high quality audio content is available at
unbelievable prices with no hidden costs or fees.
Sound-Effect
Search for, preview and download royalty free sound effects for
immediate use in your multimedia project. These high quality royalty
free sound effects are hand-picked from only the best sound designers.
SoundSnap
Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects
and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or
recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial
libraries or sample CD’s.
FindSounds
FindSounds.com is a free site for finding sound effects and musical
instrument samples on the Web. It is a Web search engine, like Google
and AltaVista, but with a focus on sounds. It provides powerful
features, yet is simple and easy to use, and suitable for all ages.
Soungle
Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all
kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples on our mega online
library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web
search engine. It only searches in our growing monster database. Our
goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and
to keep it free.
SFX Source
In SFX Source you’ll find cutting-edge and imaginative sound samples
crafted with passionate expertise for use in all levels of production,
from professional to amateur, for use in Film, TV, Games, and New Media.
A1 Free Sound Effects
A1 Free Sound Effects wants to provide the internet with our Free
Sound Effects that you can download to your computer and use for
church, school, home or for any non-profit project. Commercial Sounds
Available.
Soundrangers
Soundrangers specializes in generating state-of-the-art royalty free
sound effects and music for interactive media, such as virtual
user-interfaces, games, online entertainment, web sites and
communication devices.
Partners In Rhyme
Partners In Rhyme provide free resources, help and advice to amateur
and professional multimedia producers, film makers, musicians and
students in their search for music, sound effects and audio tools to
complete their projects inexpensively and quickly.
Soundboard
Soundboard.com puts all your audio clips, as well as millions from
other users in one, easy to manage location. Its mission is to invite
everyone to help us create a central site for audio clips in a format
that anyone with a connection and a browser can enjoy.
FreeSound.org
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database
of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the
Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides
new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to
browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of
browsing and download sounds to and from the database, under the same
creative commons license.
Acoustica
Acoustica has a great database and will help you find that ever so elusive sound effect!
Ljudo
Ljudo gives free access to more than 1200 sound effects. The sounds
are available in two formats: RealAudio and Mp3. Audition with
RealAudioplayer or download as an MP3. Ljudo includes multilingual
access, which translates the word you are searching for from your
language into English.
Nature Sounds
Nature Sounds.ca includes free online samples and as well as
full-length (usually CD-length or longer!) downloads of quality nature
sound mp3s. Some are mixed and edited field recordings, others are free
of intervention.
Pac DV
PacDV allows you to use the sound effects on their web site free of
charge in your video, film, audio and multimedia productions.
Alc Ljudprod
Alc Ljudprod have assembled their sound effects in MP3 format and they are free to download and use.
Hollywood Edge
The Hollywood Edge is the leading Hollywood Sound Effects Library.
These are the Sound Efx used in the big award winning Hollywood movies.
From explosions to a pin drop.
Download Sound Effects
Free Sound Effects to download will send your great specials for
Sound-Effects products after you sign up their free newsletter. Also
they will keep you updated with the best new SoundFX products from all
over the world.
SNDBRD
A very simple page which displays all the downloadable sound effects on its main page with a well-arranged list.
Brandens
Many people make a living as Foley Artists adding sound f/x to
movies and the like. Brandens has a large collection of sound f/x here
in a few categories.
Animal Sounds
Over 280 animal sounds available for free download. You can even
read the provided description to know better about the particular
animal sound.
I Love Waves
ILovesWaves is your ultimate categorized .wav source. You can
download sound effects from categories like animals, beeps and clicks,
birds, cartoons, halloween, around the home, around the work place,
insects, music, nature, people, vehicles and war.
Simply The Best Sound
The sound files featured in SimplytheBest Sounds were gathered from
various collections on the Internet, were created by our editors or
submitted by their visitors.
Zero 1 Media
Free wav sound samples from zero 1media. All sounds are in wav
format. You can download sound inkickdrums, snaredrums, toms, highhats,
loops, beat phrases, noises, voices, synth phrases, keyboards and synth
sounds and effects.
Boogie Jack
Funny, weird, annoying…you’ll find all kinds of sound effects at Boogie Jack.
AutoSpeak
AutoSpeak Library of Sounds features the sounds of race cars, dragsters, motorcycles and other auto-related sounds.
Special Operations
Special Operations offers free military sound effects for explosion
sounds, battle sounds, machine gun sounds, rifle sounds, shortgun
sounds, artillery sounds and others.
Little Music Club
Littlemusicclub.com where you will find SERIOUS BIG sfx wavs that
“rocks”and some other useful music links. For copyright purposes you
should contact their respective owners by checking the properties
section of each file where applicable.
Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net
There are many samples of animal sounds on the World Wide Web and
FTP sites, but finding them takes some patience and a bit of luck. This
website provides a guide that much more convenient to have an index
specifically for animal sounds.
Stoutman’s Sounds
Sounds of all kinds for your listening and downloading pleasure!
Stoutman’s Sounds is going to be putting up more sounds as time
permits.
Cool Wavs
Cool wavs is the place where you can look for some cool, funny, sexy wavs.
Free Audio Clips
FreeAudioClips.com is loaded with tons of wav, midi and au files for your listening and downloading pleasure!

Select a category on the right and easily find what you’re looking for.
Or, use the quick "audio clip keyword search" to search through the
database for that special sound clip!
Event Sounds
Event sounds lets you download wavs so you can change the sounds
your computer makes such as startup sounds, mail sounds, shut down
sounds, error sounds, movie sounds and tv sounds.
WavCentral
All of WavCentral’s audio files have been databased and categorized
— to make searching and accessing EASY. Over 504 sound effects are
available for free download.
WavPlanet
Wavplanet, the only audio page that lets users upload to its
collection and has become one of the largest on the Internet with
thousands of movie and TV files, hundreds of sound effects and MIDI
files.
Movie Sound Clips
More sound effects categories are currently being worked on Movie
Sound Clips. That includes more updates for the current categories,
especially weapon sound effects, as well as new object sound effects,
answering machine messages and lots more.
Wav-Sounds
Wav-Sounds.com is the family friendly wav site. The place to find
some of the best free wav sound files around like Answering Machine Wav
Sounds, Cartoon Wav Sounds, E-mail Wav Sounds, Funny Wav Sounds, Movie
Wav Sounds, Parody Wav Sounds, Various Wav Sounds and Vehicle Wav
Sounds.
TalkingWav
Talkingwav.com offers thousands of free wav sound files to download,
including answering machine messages, cartoon, comedy, music, movie and
tv wav sounds, all fully categorized with descriptions. Plus loads of
free mobile cell phone ringtones and videos.
Tintagel’s Free Sound File Archive
Sound files at Tintagel are provided free of charge, without any
representation or warranty whatsoever. To the best of our knowledge,
all wave, midi, and audio files presented here are in the public domain
and are available for use without restriction.
Pachd
Over 80 free sound effects are available for download at Pachd.
Amazing Sounds
Amazing sounds is where you will find all kinds of WAV files. Their
database has more than 1.000 WAV Sounds for you to download, FREE!!
Their content is made basically for multimedia developers or creators
that want to use these files; so you won’t find a lot of movie, serial,
or other sounds here.
Wav Sound Files
A complete archive for wav sound files download.
The Recordist
The Recordist presents a collection of free sound effects in MP3
format. These effects are from The Recordist SFX Library and the
“Special Edition”. The MP3 stereo versions are high quality 44.1 192k
compressed.
Sound Jay
Sound Jay allows you to use the sounds on our website free of charge
and royalty free in your projects but you are NOT allowed to post the
sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to
individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else.
FreeSFX
The free sound effects found within the categories on the site are
royalty-free and free to download and use within your audio/visual
productions. You do not have to declare the useage of these sounds to
any performing rights organizations.
Sounds FX Page
Sounds FX Page has a small collection of Sounds FX files saved in
WAV format. Instead of creating a rather humongous plethora of sound
directories, they thought you would get more use out of a fairly small
selection of really good sound files.
Free Sound Effects
Free Sound Effects has converted our Stage Sounds Series so you can
pick and choose your effects to create your own customized CD. The
sound effects are available in a smaller MP3 format and a larger WAV
file-self-extracting zip file.
Water Sounds
A mini collection of water sounds for ocean surf, rain sounds, stream, water sounds and waterfall.
3dmm Studio
The best movies always have great sound effects, and realistic
background noises. So, to help you in your quest for better sounds,
3dmm Studio has compiled and categorised several sound packs. Rubin’s
‘3dmm Sound’ packs require you to import the .3mm file into your movie,
where-as the packs complied by Will Cheyney are standard zips with
categorised .wav files.
Media College
MediaCollege.com is a free educational and resource website for all
forms of electronic media. Topics include video & television
production, audio work, photography, graphics, web design and more.They
have hundreds of exclusive tutorials with supporting illustrations,
videos, sound bytes and interactive features.
Free Sound Effects Collections
Music for video provides different categories of sound effects and
music clips. You can download and use these sounds for free on your
video/multimedia productions. The sounds in this part of the website
are mainly dedicated to people involved in video production , video
montage ,multimedia projects and etc.
Wav Surfer
Wav surfer provides free sound effects in wav files for movies, animals, musical, television and misc.
A1 Prank Calls
A1 Prank Calls - The best free sounds, April Fools’ prank items and the funniest prank call humor.
Sounds & Noise
Sounds & Noise provides free sound effects for animal sounds,
human sounds, trains, planes and automobiles, weapons, horns, bells and
whistles, sound of nature and household sounds.