Lithron is a CSS2 compatible PDF renderer for XML templates based on PDFlib written in PHP5. It's super-slim and comes with a lot of features, like image import and unicode support.

Lithron a BSD-licensed CSS2 compatible PDF-Renderer is written in PHP5 which touches down on the PDFlib. It is an OpenSource PHP PDF project. Lithron processes XML-Templates to ready PDF files.

Similarly to Lithron are the software projects: XSL find-place, FPDF and DOMPDF.

Features of Lithron:
-"Super-Slim" o lithron source code <200 KB
-Rendering Compatible with CSS2
-full university code support
-huge number of layout possibilities o block and Inline draft o absolute and relative positioning o fissures and side layouts o Wells and Sinks o Repeater o head lines and footing lines
-adaptable Worker-Plugin system
-supported fonts: OpenType, PostScript, TrueType
-import of PDF files and pictures (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, …)
-support of different units: cm, mm, pt, %, em * option ale "built-in" picture conversion with ImageMagick
-adaptable picture positioning with and without Resampling
-job-based Rendering
-PHP Templating:objects PHP5, PDFlib powered