Is possible convert HTML into pdf using Zend_Pdf?

Question

Is possible convert directly HTML into a pdf file using Zend_Pdf?, if so, How can I do that?

Answer 1

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');

Answer 2

tcpdf is a little limited when it comes to html, wkhtmltopdf uses webkit

Answer 3

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!!!

Answer 4

i've used dompdf https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf its pretty easy and straight forward. it even reads/formats css.