Here is the dompdf rendering of my SO profile page....
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-I8istAg8Z6UmJDVHEtUkZOUDQ/edit
here's the code
<?php
require_once("dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php");
$html = file_get_contents('http://stackoverflow.com/users/1461078/samidh-t');
$base_path = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ;
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
if ( isset($base_path) ) {
$dompdf->set_base_path($base_path);
}
$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream('file.pdf' , array("Attachment" => 0));
?>
the rendering is not even close to the profile page.
What can be done to improve this rendering ?
Dompdf - from memory, renders pages ok when the css and html are simple - lots of floats do not work - and you will find rendering web pages as pdf's using dompdf difficult enless you are writing the html and css yourself. (or parsing the input files first and modifying them).
What is your overall goal?
I have used dompdf to create pdf reports of data from a database and have had success but not using 'float' or any other advances css rules.
Dompdf info on css rules it can handle are here:
From this page:
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/blob/master/README.md
This text:
Limitations (Known Issues) not particularly tolerant to poorly-formed HTML input (using
Tidy first may help). large files or
large tables can take a while to render CSS float is not supported
(but is in the works). If you find this project useful, please
consider making a donation.
Related
I am using MPDF. My content of the page is dynamic. So even if the content enhances it doesn't make a page break. Rather the content shrinks and font size becomes smaller.
$mpdf = new \Mpdf\Mpdf();
$mpdf->SetDisplayMode('default');
$mpdf->WriteHTML($htmldata);
$mpdf->Output($name,"D");
Here $htmldata is my dynamic long html variable. Here's the sample of the pdf
enter link description here
mPDF resizes tables so that their parts fit the page.
See https://mpdf.github.io/troubleshooting/resizing.html
Use <table autosize="0"> to prevent most of this behaviour.
I am working with laravael,I have an HTML view that has CSS integrated. I want to convert into a PDF. If I open the view (it doesn't mather if I open it via my Documents or by a link in my app) it works fine, everything looks ok. But if I get that file and generate a PDF with dompdf, when I open it the css for the background and the images are in their places but the texts change places and have another size.
Here is how I convert it to a PDF
$file = file_get_contents("../resources/views/panel/historial/pdfs/otros.html");
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->loadHtml($file);
//$dompdf->load_html_file($html);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream("otros.pdf", array("Attachment" => 0));
return $dompdf;
enter image description here
I think that is not working in that way to except then the DOMPDF-Renderer has not the full CSS functionality.
https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf/wiki/CSSCompatibility
Here is a list of elements that are supported. So in your case i would suggest that you render a new template and make it with a different style for your PDF.
Another good solution is wkhtmltopdf which has a better support but is a command line tool which you have to call over php or if you don't need PHP then run it directly from your command line.
https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
I want to convert ms-word file(.doc,.docx) to .pdf or .html file without losing style and image on word file.
$filenamearray = explode('.',$filename );
$doc = new Docx_reader();
$doc->setFile($item);
if(!$doc->get_errors()) {
$html = $doc->to_html();
$plain_text = $doc->to_plain_text();
$myfile = file_put_contents("$filenamearray[0].html", $html.PHP_EOL , FILE_APPEND | LOCK_EX);
} else {
echo implode(', ',$doc->get_errors());
}
Above solution i tried but giving me only html without style and image.i want .html or .pdf same as .doc .docx file.
This is not an easy task and your rate of success will largely depend on the complexity of your word document. If only basic style elements are used (bold, italic, underline, color) you could use the HTML add on to FPDF. Any more complex elements would require a translation function to FPDF.
I assume you need this for template purposes, may I suggest directly programming your page layout in FPDF. You can create custom tags for layout which can be used in a WYSIWYG editor.
You will lose some of the flexibility compaired to a Word document, but that loss does not outweight the ease of setting up standard FPDF. But again, your best way to go will depend on the functionality you need and your end-goal. I suggest taking a look at the possibilities with FPDF. It's a great script and can make PDF's lightning fast!
In html page some tags are dynamically created using jquery and contents are loaded from msql db using jquery and php.
I want convert this dynamic page to pdf.
I have tried following code but it generate pdf of static part of html page.
<?php
ob_start();
?>
//html code and internal css, javascript used in external file with jquery library
<?php
include('dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php');
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($contents);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream('file.pdf');
?>
So how to store contents of dynamic html page in a php variable after processing it ( using javascript/php ) and convert it to pdf usin dompdf or other converter.
I'd suggest you take a look at wkhtmltopdf. I've had good results with getting it to render google charts, which are built dynamically from a javascript api.
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
As Marc said, you have to read generated DOM with javascript.. something like $('html').html() and then post it to php to generate pdf
This may not meet exactly what you are looking for, but wkhtmltopdf could be what you need. Since PHP is a server-side technology, you will have a difficult time getting it to process any client-side javascript. wkhtmltopdf scans the page, javascript and all, then generates a pdf file on the server. Hope this helps you out!
Consider using a tool like wkhtmltopdf to directly generate a page as a PDF. It will run javascript and generate the page as WebKit would render it.
A client of mine has a food blog hosted on WordPress. Each post entry contains some text and a div called "recipes" with some more text inside it. They would like to add to this div a link that generates a PDF of the recipe, dynamically, for saving or printing, as the user sees fit.
I have seen quite a few Wordpress plugins that offer the conversion of entire posts to PDF but not anything that's customizable enough to select a given portion of a post, the way we'd like to.
Any suggestions on how to do this? I'm comfortable with PHP, Javascript, CSS but am new to the various PDF libraries.
Take a look at dompdf It's pretty easy to work with :) This is from the documentation:
<?php
require_once("dompdf_config.inc.php");
$html =
'<html><body>'.
'<p>Put your html here, or generate it with your favourite '.
'templating system.</p>'.
'</body></html>';
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($html);
$dompdf->render();
$dompdf->stream("sample.pdf");
If you need more control than dompdf you could always use PHP's XML/XSL methods to convert the HTML to XSL:FO and use FOP on the commandline to generate the PDF. It's a little long-winded but you get complete control of the output styling/structure, the ability to "lock" the PDF, provide metadata, etc.