Dompdf VS jsPDF

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.

I am using Dompdf to create my pdf. However, I want the Dompdf project into a reusable phar. How do I do that? Do I need to leave the dependencies in the project, or can I put them into their own phar? I just want the breakdown on how to easily do this from scratch.

A middle ground is dompdf, an HTML to PDF converter made in PHP. It isn't full HTML/CSS compatible, but is good enough in most cases.

To use it, you will just need to import it to your application (usually using composer). The Github repo has full installation instructions: https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf

I normally first make a HTML page, then use https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf to make it as a PDF.

Not a plugin, but I have used this for creating PDF's dynamically. Within wordpress.

This is what I did. I just coded a little PHP script that lets me select templates and add pages, and type in markdown, and that gets wrapped in a pre-defined template and piped to a preview page. I have a print button to print to PDF, and an edit button to make changes. I could send it through something like dompdf if I didn't want to deal with browser quirks.

jsPDF is a popular JavaScript PDF generator that allows users to generate PDF files in the web browser dynamically. The library is well-maintained, stable, easy to use, and has rich documentation.

I haven't had to generate PDF files from the browser, but jsPDF looks promising.

So, as advised on the github page https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF i tried to source the new version of jsPDF using either the first or second src that you see in comment in the code below.

was working fine. But it seems this version does not have the function to do dashed lines, so i wanted a newer version. I tried downloading the folder of the newest one, or tu put : as mentionned in this page : https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF, but now i got a bug when i try to create the pdf and the code stops at the instruction var doc = new jsPDF(); I hope have i been clear, sorry i'm kind of trying out things...

You can use the .NET built-in datagrid, write your own .csv export (it's about 15 lines of code), and use jsPDF to convert the datagrid content to pdf using JavaScript.

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Didn't try but there is https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js to read and https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF to write back so I imagine it could all be done in the browser, no app required. I'm not sure if there is already a project that combine both and use the canvas as a sketching support but have a look and if there isn't one I might prototype as it could be interesting for the PineNote.