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This is most likely due to a problem with IE not refreshing the mime type of a page. What can happen is if you have had an error in the creation of the page in the past, then you fix the error, but just keep refreshing the page, IE does not re-register the mime-type of the page as a pdf, but keeps it being a text page (like it was when there was the error).
The solution is simple. Shut the browser (copying the URL before you do it makes life easier), then open a new one, and paste in the URL - it then picks up that it is a pdf page
(you don't actually have to start a new browser, simply opening the current one onto a new page is sufficient, however when you put in the new page, you may have to then refresh to get it to come up, the first time will get the broken page from the cache and display it immediatly, a refresh then will open up the pdf document)

You can choose from one of "4A0, 2A0, A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, B0, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7, B8, B9, B10, C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9, C10, RA0, RA1, RA2, RA3, RA4, SRA0, SRA1, SRA2, SRA3, SRA4, LETTER, LEGAL, EXECUTIVE, FOLIO", and it is not case sensitive.

As well as that, if you specify the size as an array of two elements, then that is used as the page width and heigt in centimenters, or an array of 4 elements which will then be used to specify the lower left and upper right corners in pdf units (approx points).

NOTE, that this only applies to the ezPdf class.

update - this functionality has been added, see the documentation for the addJpegFromFile command, there is also support for PNG files (addPngFromFile)

$pdfcode = $pdf->output();
$fp=fopen('','wb');
fwrite($fp,$pdfcode);
fclose($fp);

$pdfcode = $pdf->ezOutput();
$fp=fopen('','wb');
fwrite($fp,$pdfcode);
fclose($fp);

include 'class.pdf.php';

// make a new pdf object
$pdf = new Cpdf();
// select the font
$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica');
$pdf->addText(30,400,30,'Hello World');
$pdf->stream();

for example:

$pdf->selectFont('/home/fonts/Helvetica');

if (!isset($demotext) || strlen($demotext)==0){
  $demotext='demo text';
}

include 'class.pdf.php';

$pdf = new Cpdf(array(0,0,598,842));
$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica');

// do some funky stuff in the background, in a nice light blue, which is bound to clash with something
// and some red for the hell of it
$x=578;
$r1=25;
for ($xw=40;$xw>0;$xw-=3){
  $tone=1.0-$xw/40*0.2;
  $pdf->setLineStyle($xw);
  $pdf->setStrokeColor($tone,1,$tone);
  $pdf->ellipse(50,750,$r1);
  $r1=$r1+$xw;
}
for ($xw=40;$xw>0;$xw-=3){
  $tone=1.0-$xw/40*0.2;
  $pdf->setStrokeColor($tone,$tone,1);
  $pdf->setLineStyle($xw);
  $pdf->line($x,0,$x,842);
  $x=$x-$xw-2;
}
$pdf->setStrokeColor(0,0,0);
$pdf->setLineStyle(1);
$pdf->rectangle(20,20,558,802);

$y=800;
for ($size=50;$size>5;$size=$size-5){
  $height = $pdf->getFontHeight($size);
  $y=$y-$height;
  $pdf->addText(30,$y,$size,$demotext);
}
for ($angle=0;$angle<360;$angle=$angle+20){
  $r=rand(0,100)/100;
  $g=rand(0,100)/100;
  $b=rand(0,100)/100;
  $pdf->setColor($r,$g,$b);
  $pdf->addText(300+cos(deg2rad($angle))*40,300-sin(deg2rad($angle))*40,20,$demotext,$angle);
}
$pdf->stream();

$diff=array(196=>'Adieresis',228=>'adieresis',
            214=>'Odieresis',246=>'odieresis',
            220=>'Udieresis',252=>'udieresis',
            223=>'germandbls');
// and the first time that you call selectFont for each font, use
$pdf->selectFont('<fontname>',array('encoding'=>'WinAnsiEncoding','differences'=>$diff));

function array_search($needle, $haystack) {
	$match = false;

	foreach ($haystack as $key => $value) {
		if ($key == $needle) {
			$match = $key;
		}
	}

	return $match;
}

• the files are all in the right place (usually in a fonts folder below the class location)
• the web server has access to the files (has at least read rights to the files)
• the web server may also need write access to the folder to make the php_ files
• ensure that the case of the files is the same as the originals, this is especially important for the 14 stadard fonts.
• if adding your own ttf or pfb fonts, then the suffix needs to be lower case, and the fontname for the .pfb file (or .ttf file) must be identical to that in the .afm file.

here is the code that I include at the bottom of all my test scripts:

$pdf->ezText("\n\n".$pdf->messages,10,array('justification'=>'left'));
  
if (isset($d) && $d){
  $pdfcode = $pdf->output(1);
  $end_time = getmicrotime();
  $pdfcode = str_replace("\n","\n<br>",htmlspecialchars($pdfcode));
  echo '<html>';
  echo trim($pdfcode);
  echo '</body>';
} else {
  $pdf->stream();
}

As when debug mode is on (d=1) the pdf code is shown uncompressed, you can still pick out the messages in the code - they appear plainly on the screen when debug is off (d=0).

  $pdfcode = $pdf->output();
  
  $dir = './pdf_files';
  
  //save the file
  if (!file_exists($dir)){
    mkdir ($dir,0777);
  }

  $fname = tempnam($dir.'/','PDF_').'.pdf';
  
  $fp = fopen($fname,'w');
  fwrite($fp,$pdfcode);
  fclose($fp);
  
  echo '<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><!-- 
function go_now ()   { window.location.href = "'.$fname.'"; }
//--></SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onLoad="go_now()"; >
<a href="'.$fname.'">click here</a> if you are not re-directed.
</body>
</html>
';

  // also have a look through the directory, and remove the files that are older than a week
  if ($d = @opendir($dir)) {
    while (($file = readdir($d)) !== false) {
      if (substr($file,0,4)=="PDF_"){
        // then check to see if this one is too old
        $ftime = filemtime($dir.'/'.$file);
        if (time()-$ftime > 3600*24){
          unlink($dir.'/'.$file);
        }
      }
    }  
    closedir($d);
  }

Note that this code will also scan the folder and will remove any files which are more than a day old.

<?php
include ('class.ezpdf.php');

$pdf =& new Cezpdf('a4');


$euro_diff = array(33=>'Euro');
$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica.afm',
        array('encoding'=>'WinAnsiEncoding','differences'=>$euro_diff));

$pdf->ezText('**!!!!!!**',100,array('justification'=>'full'));

$pdf->ezText($pdf->messages,12);

if (isset($d) && $d){
  $pdfcode = $pdf->ezOutput(1);
  $pdfcode = str_replace("\n","\n<br>",htmlspecialchars($pdfcode));
  echo '<html><body>';
  echo trim($pdfcode);
  echo '</body></html>';
} else {
  $pdf->ezStream();
}

?>

Just for the reference (FAQ? :-), I've found more references about using the Euro in ASCII-Tables:

http://www.dragoman.org/euro/
replaces the "^"-char (0x5E) by the Euro-Symbol (U+20AC) and calls the new Table "Euro-ASCII"

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/1997OctDec/att-0077/01-euro.html
replaces the "|" (0x7C) by the Euro

http://www.alphaquark.com/Traduction/En_Euro.htm
replaces the ascii-char at 128 (0x80)

My Linux-console (vim + xxd) uses 0xa4...

$pdf->selectFont('ZapfDingbats.afm','none');

or:

$pdf->selectFont('ZapfDingbats.afm',array('encoding'=>'none'));

<?php

// test the table functions

error_reporting(E_ALL);

include('class.ezpdf.php');

$pdf =& new Cezpdf();

$pdf->selectFont('./fonts/Helvetica');

//--------------------------------------------------
// you will have to change these to your settings
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'root';
$password = 'secretpassword';

$database = 'mydatabasename';
$query = 'select * from user';
//--------------------------------------------------

// open the connection to the db server
$link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password);
// change to the right database
mysql_select_db($database);
// initialize the array
$data = array();
// do the SQL query
$result = mysql_query($query);
// step through the result set, populating the array, note that this could also have been written:
// while($data[] =  mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {}
while($data[] =  mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {}
// make the table
$pdf->ezTable($data);

// do the output, this is my standard testing output code, adding ?d=1
// to the url puts the pdf code to the screen in raw form, good for checking
// for parse errors before you actually try to generate the pdf file.
if (isset($d) && $d){
  $pdfcode = $pdf->output(1);
  $pdfcode = str_replace("\n","\n<br>",htmlspecialchars($pdfcode));
  echo '<html><body>';
  echo trim($pdfcode);
  echo '</body></html>';
} else {
  $pdf->stream();
}

?>