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LiveDocX service is getting popular. It lets you prepare PDF, DOCX, DOC and RTF documents using templates. On PHPFreaks.com you can read about how to use LiveDocX component of Zend Framework.

The key point with LiveDocx is to reduce the effort required to generate well-formatted, print-ready word processing documents to an absolute minimum. For the end-user, the logic involved in creating any of the supported file formats is identical. For example, regardless of whether you want a PDF or RTF file, the code, with the exception of one parameter, is the same.

Sounds interesting? It should. This new approach reduces time developers spent on writing document generation code.

LiveDocx.com is a template-based document creation platform. It allows developers to create word processing documents by combining user-defined Microsoft Word templates with data from disparate data sources, such as XML files and databases. It publishes SOAP API for generating the documents. The service can be used to generate good looking, page-oriented documents.

It allows developers to create word processing documents by combining user-defined Microsoft Word templates with data from disparate data sources, such as XML files and databases.

Support for LiveDocx service is a part of upcoming Zend Framework 1.10 release. For those interested in using it PHPLiveDocx.org published a tutorial about PDF generation with Zend Framework and LiveDocx.com.