I need to convert the html receipt to pdf file. in html file I also have php information.
How can I provide such a thing?
could you suggest me with codes.
This is going to be a listing question, but we've used DOMPDF as #skippy suggested, and rejected it because it is a REAL troublemaker when tables surpass a page.
We've moved to http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ , which is -in my opinion- way better. It's being used in a production environment sending out lots of pdfs per day. It uses the webkit rendering enginge (you know, the one that chrome uses) and is therefore awesome :)
Have you taken a look at the DOMPDF project ? It simply rockz...
If that is not enough, you may want to browse StackOverflow itself :
Convert HTML + CSS to PDF with PHP?
Try using this to automagically convert html to pdf:
www.tcpdf.org
Try this
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
it works like a charm. :)
My company has a product called DocRaptor that converts HTML to PDF using an HTTP POST request.
DocRaptor is built using Prince, and produces higher quality results than similar programs.
Here's a link to DocRaptor's homepage:
DocRaptor
I am using this code there is no need to installation of any thing .
http://sourceforge.net/projects/html2fpdf/
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this is what i'm trying to do. I have a Student Result Application in
which i'll like to print out a pdf format of a specially designed
Result's Sheet..
http://www.4shared.com/photo/yg8vCjYe/results_layout.html
My question is that is it possible to send all the html, css and php
variables from the final result sheet to the pdf engine, or just
design a new page result_printout.php page and implement the
pdf engine on that page.
I'll be happy your honest opinions
thanks for you help
honestly, i haven't done this before,
but i think this should help:
http://www.rustyparts.com/pdf.php
Since you allready have the HTML I would suggest to use wkhtmltopdf. There also some wrappers for PHP. It's allways a bit tricky to get it all work in the right way, especially with pagebreaks.
But I find it usually more easy to use then all the other PHP PDF creation classes/libraries.
I have only worked with MPDF and you can pretty much send all the html, css and php variables to the pdf enginge and tell the engine to either force a download or send it to the browser where the user can either save the file or print or just view it. You can also email the generated pdf.
You can read the documentation here: http://mpdf1.com/manual/
I want to generate PDF from a PHP file that includes HTML controls like textbox, and textarea. I attached CSS in the same. I tried FPDF, DOMPDF and TCPDF, but still I don't get exactly what I want. How do I pass HTML controls with PHP variables and CSS to these libraries?
mpdf is another option that you could try.
EDIT :
Found another solution for it, TCPDF is a FLOSS PHP class for generating PDF documents. Looks more dominating library.
"PRINCEXML" is a good library (not completely free now).
Others:
If your meaning is to create a PDF file from PHP, pdflib will help you (as some other suggested).
Else, if you want to convert an HTML page in PDF via PHP, you'll find
a little trouble outta here.. For three years I have been trying to do it as best as I
can.
So, the options I know are:
HTML2PS: same of DOMPDF, but this one convert first in .ps
(Ghostscript), then, in whatever format you need (PDF, JPEG, PNG). For
me it is a little better than dompdf, but I have the same speed problem.. Oh,
it has better compatibility with CSS.
Those two are PHP classes, but if you can install some software on the
server, and access it through passthru() or system(), have a look at
these too:
wkhtmltopdf: based on webkit (safari's wrapper), is really fast and
powerful... It seem like it is the best one (atm) for converting HTML pages to PDF on the fly, taking only two seconds for a three pages XHTML document
with CSS 2. It is a recent project. Anyway, the Google Code page is often
updated.
htmldoc: this one is a tank, it really never stops orcrashes... The project
seems to have died in 2007, but anyway if you don't need CSS compatibility
this can be nice for you.
** Thumbs Up For Strae.
If I understand your needs correctly I don't think any PHP-PDF class would do that.
Mostly you could insert only text and images to a PDF file, so if you would want something that looks like an HTML element you would need to insert it as an image.
Usually just putting HTML doesn't mean all your elements would stay intact in the PDF . (Different world, after all)
http://www.fpdf.org/ is the site having a great HTML-to-PDF class which work well. I am using it, but you have to first study its functionality and then start.
How do I convert a PDF file to HTML in PHP? Is there any lib or web service? I mean free, thanks!
Google pdf2html, pdftohtml looks to be the only viable one. and it's based on a command line program, not PHP. so it may not be useful to you. Google is capable of converting, so there may be a way to do it with GDocs as well. though I'm not sure of that. At any rate, I hope this gets you on the proper path at least.
I've tried Poppler's pdftohtml command to convert PDF files to HTML files. Check it out on The HTML file output of Poppler is lighter when used but the output is not very accurate.
If you want accurate output you should use pdf2htmlEX I've converted complicated PDF files and got the best HTML output.
You can't.
PDFs are complex documents containing embedded fonts, vector graphics and layout information that cannot be represented in HTML in an automated way. You may be able to extract the TEXT of the document, but that's about it.
We want to display a pdf-file on a webpage.
From what i can think of i see two possible solutions, displaying the file with some kind of pdf reader(maybe in flash?) or converting the pdf-file to html before displaying it.
How would you proceed to solve a problem like this?
Which would be the preferable method?
Well, there's always a third way: serve the PDF itself and leave the rest to the visitor.
For public websites, you can improve the user experience and reduce bandwidth overhead by embedding your PDF documents in your pages using one of the document sharing services such as:
http://www.scribd.com
http://www.docstoc.com
I should also add that scribd also has an API for uploading documents (and more).
If you absolutely need to display the PDF in the browser, you can use FlashPaper. It installs on Windows as a printer, and lets you convert any kind of document to SWF, which you embed in your HTML.
I've used it in several projects, but it's not an ideal solution. From the user standpoint, the best thing is to be able to download the PDF and read it with her favorite PDF viewer.
Try using the embed or object html tags.
http://blog.flashcolony.com/?p=244
Personally I wouldn't bother with that, and just rely on the user to have a proper pdf reader. If you go for a flash (or silverlight?) solution, you're imposing another requirement to the user to cover up the first one. On the other hand, converting PDF to HTML isn't all that easy, just look at how the output from Gmail's 'view as html' functionality looks.
As said, and as others already posted while I'm writing this I am sure, is to not bother and just let the visitor deal with having something to read pdf with ;-)
A solution not mentioned by others is to rasterize the PDF (say, via ghostscript) and serve the resulting image as PNG, JPG, etc. You have to choose the resolution (perhaps 72 dpi) and you have to understand that the document will become much less readable, especially to sensory impaired visitors.
Create a PHP file like this: I'm calling this first php file "firstfile.php"
<?php
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
$file='yourpdffile.pdf';
#readfile($file);
?>
Then create another PHP file and use iframe to get your desired PDF file. Sample code is below
<iframe src="http://localhost/Domainfolder/firstfile.php>" height="400px" width="750px">
</iframe>
This should do the trick unless you don't reference the links well. Enjoy ;)
In my site i m fetching my mysql data by using PHP. I want open that data in pdf file when i click pdf print button is it possible?
First of all, if you want a high quality professional product to do that. You want Prince XML
If you are looking into some open source tool to achieve something similar. You can look into this SO question.
You could prepare static PDF form file, that just fill it in with values using PHP's FDF module.
It depends which platform are you using. This would be an easy job if you are using Groovy on grails. There are plugins which facilitate pdf reporting like the jasper-plugin.
Luis
Check out jsPDF, an open-source library for generating PDF documents using nothing but JavaScript.
You can process the data with Apache FOP after transforming it to XML. (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/).
If your page is template based, you may create a template which produces xml output and process that. You'll have extremely well contol over the pdf construction. The tradeoff is that it is not a "plug this in and will work" solution, but I've done that and once its set up, works like charm.
I've used TCPDF in the past, it's a little kludgy but can definitely get the job done. (http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf)
The FPDF module in PHP is simple enough to get the data together. It is a safe option since you know what data you are passing out to the PDF engine. There are some streaming pdf options which can take in a bunch of html and then output that to pdf however they can get it quite wrong without you knowing.
I used, on Linux machines, WKHTMLTOIMAGE/WKHTMLTOPDF a number of times, on many projects. It workes like a charm, easy to use, just a script that you run.