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What is the best and fastest way to:
Convert an HTML formatted string to multi-page PDF
Apply CSS to HTML elements in the string/PDF
Apply header and footer
Automatically pagenumber the PDF with a table of contents
Willing to purchase something for this but would rather have a quick/dirty method to do it.
I'm having good success with DOMPDF (http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/), supports loads of CSS (except float) and does repeated headers and footers nicely. You'd have to write your own TOC functionality, I think though. But it integrates really well with the rest of the Zend Framework app I'm building and I can recommend it.
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I am creating an invoicing application that generates a dynamic invoice via php/mysql in the browser windows. Tables and css are part of the makeup.
I was thinking it would be nice to have a button that when clicked, a popup would appear asking you to save a pdf to your computer.
Can someone steer me in the right direction?
These might be of help:
fpdf - PHP class-based generator
wkhtmltopdf - Convert html to pdf using webkit (qtwebkit)
mPDF - PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
TCPDF - an enhanced and maintained version of fpdf
dompdf - (mostly) CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine
Zend_Pdf - A PDF manipulation engine/component from Zend
PrinceXML - Commercial, but supports CSS3 transforms
It's partly dependent on how complex the HTML is and what you want to display. Some of them can be a bit flaky when rendering certain style-based elements (especially CSS2/CSS3), but in general they are pretty good.
If you're planning to "force-download" your PDFs, then you'll need to use something like the following in PHP:
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename=filename.pdf');
A good example/explanation can be found in a previous SO answer: php: force download to harddrive?
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If I missed a similar question, I'm truly sorry - I have done what I believe to be quite a bit of digging on this subject and come up empty handed.
Is it possible (or practical) to do one of the following:
1) Use the data from a web form to populate fields in a PDF?
or 2) Simply upload the PDF and allow the user to complete and submit it online?
I don't necessarily have a preference between the two, other than the most practical solution.
mPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF, with a number of enhancements.
check it out MPDF1
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What's the fastest, cleanest and best way to export from PHP a webpage (given URL) into PDF?
Hard. You wont be able to convert HTML to PDF just like that without any manipulation. One shot may be using mPDF, but that probabliy won't satisfy your needs, since it has limited HTML functionality.
The other way would be making a screenshot of a webpage and including it in PDF document, but you'll need specialized software, or at least libray. Read further on that topic.
You can go for TCPDF.
dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP domPdf
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I was searching for a way to convert HTML to PDF, but all I found was very limited.
There are plenty of issues you need to address, which you have failed to do so. Does it need to support advanced table structures, css support etc. As a start you can look into html2pdf or a paid solution PrinceXML
If you can use printing, you may try using the FreePDF XP printer driver.
It uses GhostScript, so a library for it, if you want to do it programatically, may also do the trick.
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Is it possible to convert a HTML page to PDF using PHP, and if so, how can it be done?
Specifically, the page is an invoice generated dynamically. So I would like it loaded using:
http://example.com/invoices/3333
And the HTML output would have to be converted to PDF.
Any good libraries that do this will be fine.
If you wish to create a pdf from php, pdflib will help you (as some others suggested).
Else, if you want to convert an HTML page to PDF via PHP, you'll find a little trouble outta here.. For 3 years I've been trying to do it as best as I can.
So, the options I know are:
DOMPDF : php class that wraps the html and builds the pdf. Works good, customizable (if you know php), based on pdflib, if I remember right it takes even some CSS. Bad news: slow when the html is big or complex.
HTML2PS: same as DOMPDF, but this one converts first to a .ps (ghostscript) file, then, to whatever format you need (pdf, jpg, png). For me is little better than dompdf, but has the same speed problem.. but, better compatibility with CSS.
Those two are php classes, but if you can install some software on the server, and access it throught passthru() or system(), give a look to these too:
wkhtmltopdf: based on webkit (safari's wrapper), is really fast and powerful.. seems like this is the best one (atm) for converting html pages to pdf on the fly; taking only 2 seconds for a 3 page xHTML document with CSS2. It is a recent project, anyway, the google.code page is often updated.
htmldoc : This one is a tank, it never really stops/crashes.. the project looks dead since 2007, but anyway if you don't need CSS compatibility this can be nice for you.