TCPDF, a FLOSS PHP class for generating PDF documents, reaches 100,000 downloads

Nov. 7, 2008 - PRLog -- TCPDF, a Free Libre Open Source PHP class for generating PDF documents, has announced it has achieved a new milestone by reaching 100,000 downloads from SourceForge.net, and the number is expected continues to grow.

TCPDF was originally derived in 2002 from the Public Domain FPDF class and now it is the most complete FLOSS solution to produce PDF documents from PHP. TCPDF has been ranked 44 over 200.000 projects hosted on SourceForce.net and it is already included on thousands of popular projects like Joomla, Drupal, Moodle, phpMyAdmin, TCExam, Xoops, etc.

TCPDF has gained popularity amongst PHP developers that want a library that enable them easily generate PDF documents without requiring external extensions, supporting UTF-8 Unicode, Right-To-Left languages, XHTML, javascript, graphic functions and much more.

"100,000 downloads is not only a remarkable achievement for us, but also for the entire community of open source developers. This is truly a wonderful and encouraging achievement, which we regard as a clear indicator of the increasing power of open source in the real world," states Nicola Asuni, CEO and founder of Tecnick.com s.r.l.

Having reached the previous major milestone, 50,000 downloads only in January 2008, TCPDF has rapidly grown the number of downloads which signifies that more and more developers around the world are discovering TCPDF.

TCPDF is a project of Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com s.r.l.

For more information: http://www.tcpdf.org

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