If you mean ‘how do I create pdf files’ then either acquire a pdf building library, of which there are many, and learn how to use it, or do it the hard way (as I recently did) and read and digest the Pdf Converting PDF standard document and ‘Developing with PDF’ by Leonard Rosenthol. Internally PDFs are fairly complex, you can’t realistically create one simply by writing plain text to a file.
So, the most effective way of creating a PDF document is the use of a conversion API, which is basically a library of tools that have been made to make your life easier in order to create and use a single file. These are known as converters, but I call them API's in that you use them to get your result, but they also have functions for extracting information from the file such as what the size and location of the PDF page is, etc. It really wouldn't be necessary to write a lot of code just to get PDFs out to the browser. What is a Converter? Well, for some it depends on who you ask, but generally speaking a Converter is an API designed to make PDF creation as simple as possible. Most of them have a simple but adequate API to create a file of any size or.