Is possible convert HTML into pdf using Zend_Pdf?
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29-04-2021 - |
Question
Is possible convert directly HTML into a pdf file using Zend_Pdf?, if so, How can I do that?
Solution
Zend_PDF
isn't able to generate PDF based on HTML. But you can render view and use other library for convert it to PDF. I've done such thing with TCPDF. Little code snippet below:
//SomeController.php
$this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
//set content for view here
// create new PDF document
require_once('tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);
//whole TCPDF's settings goes here
$htmlcontent = $this->view->render('recipe/topdf.phtml');
// output the HTML content
$pdf->writeHTML($htmlcontent, true, 0, true, 0);
$pdf->lastPage();
$pdf->Output("pdf-name.pdf", 'D');
OTHER TIPS
tcpdf is a little limited when it comes to html, wkhtmltopdf uses webkit
Check out MPDF . The ultimate one. Create your html with inline css, store it in one php variable and echo to pdf file. you are done!!!
i've used dompdf https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf its pretty easy and straight forward. it even reads/formats css.
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