I am looking for a php library or an unix shell tool to render a HTML page into a single png/jpg image.
Is there any?
I found a promising project.
It rendered the following code in 0.133 seconds using the webkit plugin.
<html>
<body>
<b><u>abc</u></b>
<table><tr><td>abc</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cutycapt/
Unfortunately it works only for Windows.
There is another webkit implementation using python.
XServer-less webpage screenshot
http://www.insecure.ws/2008/09/16/xserver-less-webpage-screenshot
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So I am using the codeigniter pdf library from: https://github.com/chrisnharvey/CodeIgniter-PDF-Generator-Library
And it works wonders except, It doesn't keep the style sheet when the pdf is generated.
I am trying to use bootstrap to make it look nice, But when I run the script and download the pdf it doesn't have the styling anymore. What do I need to do to keep the stylesheet linked?
My Controller:
public function AdminPracticeSheetLateReport()
{
$this->load->view('pdf/practiceLateReport');
$this->pdf->load_view('pdf/practiceLateReport');
$this->pdf->render();
$this->pdf->stream("welcome.pdf");
}
I am loading the bootstrap stylesheet like so in my view:
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
Is this even possible with this plugin? If not it's quite the crappy plugin if you ask me.
BTW: This library for codeigniter uses the DomPDF
I just checked the source code of codeigniter and noticed that it does not itself make a PDF, but uses DOMPDF in turn (which is another PHP library). codeigniter does not properly send the html and css to DOMPDF, so in my suggestion you should remove codeigniter and use DOMPDF instead. This should correct your problem and also speed up the conversion by a few miliseconds.
Currently I am using the standard way to embed an pdf to the browser, however, the built-in pdf viewer for my target browser is not working as expected. I would like to force (Chrome, Firefox and IE8 (if possible, but IE9+ is also ok)) to use the adobe reader. The problem is , I can only change this option manually. Is there any way to change the option in HTML/ JS/ PHP ? Thanks.
<OBJECT data="YourFile.pdf" TYPE="application/x-pdf" TITLE="SamplePdf"
WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=100>
shree
</object>
I try to find the solution and someone suggested header, not working unfortunately e.g.
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Disposition: inline; filename.pdf
You can use Google PDF viewer to embed pdf files on to your website. Use this link https://docs.google.com/viewer
Example:
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url={HTTP PATH OF THE PDF FILE}&embedded=true" width="600" height="780" style="border: none;"></iframe>
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf
Check out PDFObject which is a Javascript library to embed PDFs in HTML files. It handles browser compatibility pretty well and will most likely work on IE8.
In your HTML, you could set up a div to display the PDFs:
<div id="pdfRenderer"></div>
Then, you can have Javascript code to embed a PDF in that div:
var pdf = new PDFObject({
url: "https://sample.pdf",
id: "pdfRendered",
pdfOpenParams: {
view: "FitH"
}
}).embed("pdfRenderer");
Cheers
Trick Chrome and Firefox (and maybe other browsers) into displaying the PDFs using the Adobe Reader plugin (for full PDF Open Parameters support among other benefits) by using one of the following 'Adobe PDF in XML Format' types in your embed code:
application/vnd.adobe.pdfxml
application/vnd.adobe.x-mars
This works fine as of my answer today and I'm hopeful it will continue to work fine. I'm using it currently with standard PDF files as a workaround for embedding PDF files in the browser that need to use the Adobe PDF plugin rather than the browser's built-in PDF rendering. Even though my PDF files are standard (non-XML) files, they appear to load just fine with this new application type parameter.
<OBJECT data="YourFile.pdf" TYPE="application/vnd.adobe.pdfxml" TITLE="SamplePdf"
WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=100>
shree
</object>
I have javascript code that generates svg image tags on the fly when a person lands on one of the pages. Im using the d3 library to help make the image. The only problem is that d3 is not fully IE compatible and I would want to generate a .png, jpg, gif or any other image file based on the svg file. Is there a known way to do this?
The server side code is PHP based, and we use node.js, and render.js for a lot of the dynamic content.
I'm using ImageMagick to convert SVG images to PNG images.
This works pretty well.
A quick example of how to do this:
exec('/usr/bin/convert /path/to/image.svg /path/to/output_image.png');
I'm using this with great success for processing QR codes made with libqrencode to different sizes and colors.
Firstly you need to use a DOM implementation on server side as you want to get svg which is rendered on client side.For this we use jsdom with node.js.
Using this you can render D3 on server side and get svg on server then convert it to any format you like.
Here is the link on how to that.
Once you got SVG and PNG then by using modernizer.js
1)Check compatibility of browser using Modernizr.
2)Then load SVG or PNG basing upon on the compatibility.
Example (JS solution):
if (!Modernizr.svg) {
$("#logo").css("background-image", "url(fallback.png)");
}
Example (CSS solution):
.no-svg #logo { background-image: url(fallback.png); }
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.
What would be the simplest, shortest way to turn a text file into a PDF file with PHP? With some basic example code if possible.
I've seen this but the examples don't show how to use a text file as input.
http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php
Thanks
TCPDF and FPDF can both render PDF output. If you're on a Linux system, you could also call the system's ghostscript to do it.
You'll definitely need a library to write PDFs. I'd say try FPDF.
TCPDF is the best way to convert text or HTML to PDF.
http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf
Throwing Zend_Pdf into the ring as well.
And a somewhat old tutorial to get you started in addition to the extensive docs in the ZF manual:
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2525
You can use MPDF.
I wrote a smalll instruction:
1) download Full version(http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php?page=Download ) and extract inside anyfolder
2) create sample.php in anyfolder and insert like this:
<?php
include('./mpdf.php');
$mpdf=new mPDF();
$mpdf->WriteHTML('<div style="color:yellow;">SAMPLE TEXT, WITH HTML TAGS Too!</div>');
$mpdf->Output(); die('');
?>
3) then open sample.php in your browser to see the result!
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