Dompdf VS TCPDF

Compare Dompdf vs TCPDF and see what are their differences.

TCPDF

Official clone of PHP library to generate PDF documents and barcodes (by tecnickcom)
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Dompdf TCPDF
16 16
10,219 3,991
1.1% 1.5%
8.4 7.3
1 day ago 7 days ago
PHP PHP
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Dompdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dompdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

TCPDF

Posts with mentions or reviews of TCPDF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.
  • PDF generation in Laravel
    3 projects | dev.to | 24 Dec 2023
    Leveraging Laravel for PDF generation involves utilizing its built-in features or integrating third-party packages. The framework supports popular packages like dompdf and TCPDF, making it easy to implement PDF generation with minimal effort.
  • PostScript’s Sudden Death in Sonoma
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2023
    TCPDF has full support for rendering an EPS into a PDF.

    It can be fussy.

    https://tcpdf.org/

  • PHP chart libraries
    4 projects | /r/PHP | 2 Mar 2023
    Depending on if this is a web-based project or not this suggestion might not be suitable. But the last few projects like this I did that were web-based I have used Google Charts with TCPDF. I rendered the charts on the page as a "print preview", and since TCPDF supports basic HTML composition I saved out the charts as generated images and submitted them to the server which generates a PDF. Bit convoluted but that was what I came up with in a hurry.
  • pdf generation
    3 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 8 Feb 2023
    Running a headless browser to render HTML is a resource intensive task. If you only need to generate simple documents, you're better off using a tool that generates PDF directly. In the old days we used FPDF and its successors (TCPDF was the most popular). Both seem to have recent releases. There's also mPDF , that seems to be another child of FPDF.
  • Bundling lots of .html files into a PDF?
    3 projects | /r/pdf | 9 Jul 2022
    I would also look at dompdf and tcPDF, they would have very advantages if you intend to revise/reprint your documentation.
  • How to insert MYSQL data in allredy prepared PDF document
    2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 31 May 2022
    The original site still has it available for download, but most importantly, a ton of examples and documentation, that while I haven't tried the github version, probably works based on the same as the old.
  • Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022
    I had to recreate some PDFs at work that were created by "iText by Lowagie" which must have been a java library at the time.

    I redid it with the FPDF library for php, and it worked out fine. I tried some new features of tcpdf, and it wasn't much work to convert.

    Using inkscape to make an EPS out of an svg was also challenging.

    I know that postscript and PDF is based on a forth stack machine, if I really had to get that low.

    http://fpdf.org/

    https://tcpdf.org/

    https://wiki.c2.com/?ForthPostscriptRelationship

  • Looking for a tool/resource to create a PDF checklist generator.
    2 projects | /r/pdf | 4 Nov 2021
    FPDF and its extended variants TCPDF and mPDF will easily do it (PHP). There are other libs in Python, Java. Most are free/open source. I have some working PHP that may be modifiable for your purposes (web form to collect data and generate checklist) if you are interested in assistance (not free though).
  • Can't figure out how to include files on my project.
    3 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 29 Sep 2021
    I've downloaded the files from https://github.com/tecnickcom/tcpdf and uploaded the tcpdf_min folder to /var/www/html.
    3 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 29 Sep 2021
    My folder structure is just like as seen in https://github.com/tecnickcom/tcpdf

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Dompdf and TCPDF you can also consider the following projects:

mPDF - PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML

WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

Snappy - PHP library allowing thumbnail, snapshot or PDF generation from a url or a html page. Wrapper for wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltoimage

tc-lib-pdf - TCPDF - PHP PDF Library - https://tcpdf.org

browsershot - Convert HTML to an image, PDF or string

PHPPdf - Pdf and graphic files generator library written in php

jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.

PHPJasper - A PHP report generator

html-to-pdf-convertor - HTML to PDF convertor for Android