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I'm on a basic Apache with no extensions apart from default enabled and I want to create a PDF file from the current page.
The current page is PHP echoing out some variables but I want to create a PDF document from the HTML and text currently shown on the page.
Something like WHMCS quote system.
You could use a third party solution such as:
http://pdfcrowd.com/
http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/
http://html-pdf-converter.com/
I'd recommend pdfcrowd.com - it has an API that you can use and i've used the service before and not had any problems.
Look into FPDF, TCPDF, DomPDF, or any other PHP PDF library.
FPDF is very lightweight, and could be perfect for you if you are just echoing out variables.
TCPDF is much more HTML->PDF in terms of syles and css features, but the file size is a bit bigger. It could be used to easily build invoices and make them look nice.
I haven't used DomPDF personally, so I won't comment on it, but it can get the job done.
Take a look at FPDF.
It is a free libary for generating .pdf documents within php.
I've used TCPDF to create a PDF from HTML. I think DOMPDF also does that
you have a few options:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php
FPDF: http://www.fpdf.org/
TCPDF: http://www.tcpdf.org/
DOMPDF: http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/
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You can also check dompdf . It creates pdf FROM HTML ! it could be more appropriate for your request but I personally prefer FPDF (CSS make me sometimes crazy with domdf :-) )
The only pure PHP solution I've tested is mPDF and it worked pretty well for my purpose. It takes HTML/CSS input at generates a PDF from that.
It requires a lot of memory so you'll have to increase the memory limit for the script. The settings that worked for me were:
ini_set('memory_limit', '1024M');
ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', 2000000);
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I am using PHP 5.0 pdf library to convert files dynamically into PDF.
I am using this reference from the official PHP website using PDF_new(), creating its object and using PDF_set_info and PDF_get_buffer functions.
This works fine, but when I want to create PDF pages and writing the content inside of it, there is no reference given anywhere on how to convert an already existing page to PDF. Say a page in my folder bill.php with CSS too needs to be converted to PDF on the fly.
Well converting HTML to PDF is not that easy, there are several libraries out there that might fit your needs. But none has full html/css capabilities, especially not css3.
FPDF
http://www.fpdf.org
TCPDF
http://www.tcpdf.org
DOMPDF
http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ (this class allows you to easily convert simple layouted websites to pdf. i used this class quite often with almost no problems. sadly this library does not support converting of forms to usable input fields.)
WKHTMLTOPDF
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ (actually a linux package but php wrappers are existing. this gives almost full html capabilities and awesome results)
html2PDF is a nice library to use. Make sure you change the default language to English though. I've used it many times to create dynamic invoices with tables and divs. Works really well.
Refer some of the articles, which may help to improve your knowledge as well as clear some of doubt of you.
Getting started
Convert HTML To PDF in PHP The Easy Way
How to Generate a PDF With PHP
Convert HTML to PDF
This HTML to PDF SDK may also help you.
Hope, it will help you.
I have worked on generating PDF about 3 years ago and used FPDF lib for this purpose. I remember it wasn't great as it was very limiting. I haven't got a chance to work on any other PDF related programming since.
I reckon many libraries came up to light during last few years. What is the best pdf generating lib for php that you can recommend nowadays? I would need to be able to include images or even 2 layers (image + text on it) so the lib should allow to do that easily
thanks
Why should not you try to prepare a html of your choice and convert it to pdf using htmltopdf generator. wkhtmltopdf is one among the best. Try to create a html template where you can pass your data and image space. Pass data to that html template and convert that html into pdf.
I need to generate a pdf file by adding pages from an already generated pdf using only php or javascript.
I tried fpdf but could not find any appropriate function. Is there a method I could use to do this?
There is an extension that should allow this to work called FPDI
That being said, I've not had a ton of luck through the years using FPDF. I've always fallen back to DomPDF or the likes. Like anything Adobe touches, PDF is not the most friendly tool in the world for those of us charged to make them work.
Try this:
http://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/fpdi/
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I have some HTML that includes bolding, italics, small tag, big tag, blockquote tag, bullets, and numbered items. I need to convert it to PDF via PHP. I tried FPDF, but it was entirely too complex. I tried the html2pdf PHP library, which uses FPDF, but it was very buggy and unreliable. What do you recommend?
Note: Imagine your typical resume. I'm needing to format something like that.
Take a look at FPDF
I've had a lot of success with dompdf.
Make sure you have valid HTML though, or it can get into a loop.
It's very simple to use - about 4 lines to convert an HTML file to a PDF.
I have had good experiences with PrinceXML. Their rendering engine is very good. Passes acid2 and has good .svg support so you can include vector images instead of bitmaps to keep the .PDF relatively small (which is important when generating reports which need to be sent as an attachment).
(note that princexml is proprietary software).
http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/
I once used the above to turn incredibly complex architect's tile specifications into PDFs on a dynamic basis and it worked out well. I found the class very approachable and easily modifiable.
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I have a form with 5 fields, two of which are textboxes extended with tinyMCE, the rest are simple inputs of type text.
I need to generate a PDF from this input. I understand that I can use Zend_Pdf to generate the PDF and include the plain text data. But how, for example, can I include a bulleted list from the tinyMCE fields?
Would the best way be to create an HTML file, and then use for example DOMPDF or HTML2PDF? Ideally, I'd prefer to just use the zend framework to create the document, position and insert the fields, and save.
Thanks in advance.
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In my experience, Prince XML was the Rolls Royce of such technologies so far away and above any of the other ones it's not even funny. It's expensive though. But I had all sorts of problems with all the others.
Some time ago I tried to use HTML to PDF conversion programs to convert... HTML to PDF, but in the end I gave up with that approach and just created the PDFs directly in code. I use fpdf (http://www.fpdf.org/) as a base and added supporting code for lists and grids etc.
I am using Prince XML mentioned by cletus. Results are very good, even with css styled html with floats etc. It's expensive, but it just works and saves a lots of time.
FPDF is very old library for PHP4. It propably won't even work nowadays. I'd recommend DOMPDF or TCPDF. They both are for PHP5+ and can eat HTML or CSS to some degree.
You could convert it all to HTML and then use openoffice or some other tool (pandoc is quite nifty too) to convert from HTML to PDF.
Alternatively, you could take a look at LiveDocx, which has php-bindings too. It's a hosted service, but you can use it without charge.
I personal recommend command line application instead of any php libraries.
Reasons :
PHP libraries need more time and memory (cache) for conversion process
They need well formatted html pages only, otherwise through errors or warning
Not support for external style sheet.
Command Line Tool:
If run your script on Linux server then I suggest command line tool.
Reasons :
They are extremely fast as compared to PHP libraries.
Support css.
Accept non well formatted html.
Which command line tool to use?
wkhtmltopdf
htmltopdf
html2pdf
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