Snappy
PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Wrapper for wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage (by KnpLabs)
mPDF
PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML (by mpdf)
| Snappy | mPDF | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 18 | |
| 4,342 | 4,267 | |
| 0.4% | 0.5% | |
| 4.8 | 7.1 | |
| 3 months ago | 11 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v2.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Snappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Snappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.
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How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint
When I first looked for solutions to generate a PDF document in a Symfony application, I was amazed to find that a SymfonyCast was made about this. It features the PHP library Snappy, which is essentially a wrapper around wkhtmltopdf.
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Best alternative to DomPDF?
Snappy - https://github.com/KnpLabs/snappy/graphs/contributors
mPDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of mPDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-05.
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Intro to DOMPDF - lightest and simplest PHP library to generate PDF documents
Generating PDF documents out of your app's HTML output is a very common requirement and there are several open source libraries to accomplish this. I came across this need for my project recently and I evaluated many popular ones such as TCPDF, mpdf, FPDF, etc. But the one that truly stood up to my evaluation in terms of efficiency (minimal footprint) and ease of implementation was DOMPDF.
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HTML to PDF package that supports RTL language?
Not sure if it has all the things you need but we use https://mpdf.github.io/
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pdf generation
I'm currently using mPDF for large reports including tables, graphs, and complex formatting.
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How to Create Laravel PDF file and Download?
Visit this link for more options and settings: https://mpdf.github.io/
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TCPDF
mPDF (very similar to TCPDF)
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Choosing a PHP Framework over Core PHP
Writing a piece of code for a problem that has already being solved, tested and approved by other developers slows down the development of an application by a huge amount of time. For instance, trying to create a functionality that enables PDF files to be downloadable on a website is a waste of time when you have a package like mPDF that does that.
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Dynamically Create A PDF Using PHP
Full mPDF Documentation
- Is there a free source available that I can incorporate into my website which will convert HTML/CSS to a PDF that the user can then save locally?
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[PAID] Request: Convert mPDF files to PDF (eBooks)
About mPDF https://mpdf.github.io/ "mPDF is a PHP library which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML."
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Playwright: Automate Chromium, WebKit and Firefox
For PHP-based applications I've used mPDF[0], which generates PDFs from HTML without using a browser. I'm sure it can't handle all the CSS bells/whistles that a "modern" website uses, but it's worked well for me.
[0]: https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Snappy and mPDF you can also consider the following projects:
Dompdf - HTML to PDF converter for PHP
laravel-dompdf - A DOMPDF Wrapper for Laravel
TCPDF - Official clone of PHP library to generate PDF documents and barcodes
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
PHPWord - A pure PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents
PHPJasper - A PHP report generator
browsershot - Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string
tc-lib-pdf - TCPDF - PHP PDF Library - https://tcpdf.org
FPDI - FPDI is a collection of PHP classes facilitating developers to read pages from existing PDF documents and use them as templates in FPDF.