laravel-dompdf VS TCPDF

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.

In conclusion, creating PDF files in Laravel 9 is a simple task that can be accomplished using the laravel-dompdf package. By following the steps outlined in this tutorial, you can easily generate PDFs for your web application. This can be a great feature for creating invoices, reports, and other types of documents, with the added benefit of being SEO optimized.

This is option number 1 which I am going to give it a try, I already made a blank project, installed the sample package barryvdh/dompdf: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

Package link: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

As the title says, I am trying to use the dom-pdf laravel wrapper by barryvdh https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

As you’ve noticed, I used a 3rd party library called laravel-dompdf to generate PDF Files from HTML. I’ve used the ZipArchive class of PHP for creating and updating the Zip Archives. I’ve batched the jobs so that they are logically grouped and I can monitor them as a whole. Also you can notice how the Storage facade works perfectly with these two.

The composer package we will be using is laravel-dompdf. To use this package in our project we will use this command:

I personally use dompdf (https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf) for html -> pdf conversions. After a quick search, I found a wrapper that allows blade templates to be converted to PDFs: https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf

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.

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.

TCPDF has full support for rendering an EPS into a PDF.

It can be fussy.

https://tcpdf.org/

Idk what’s the big problem. Maybe it’s just something like https://tcpdf.org ? Using that for years.

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.

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.

You may want to look at a PDF library (Python/PHP/Perl/Java, etc.) You can do all you mention with a lot of flexibility. tcPDF comes immediately to mind, there is also a Python port. If you want to learn a language, i recommend python. Learning how to make a basic program when it is something that you want, and you know what you want is a great way to learn.

I would also look at dompdf and tcPDF, they would have very advantages if you intend to revise/reprint your documentation.

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.