mPDF VS browsershot

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.

Not sure if it has all the things you need but we use https://mpdf.github.io/

I'm currently using mPDF for large reports including tables, graphs, and complex formatting.

Visit this link for more options and settings: https://mpdf.github.io/

mPDF (very similar to TCPDF)

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.

Full mPDF Documentation

About mPDF https://mpdf.github.io/ "mPDF is a PHP library which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML."

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

Sure! PHP makes it really simple. I use https://github.com/spatie/browsershot that just makes its way through a JSON feed of the links on a cronjob. I host a lot of stuff on a single VPS so its super flexible.

I used https://github.com/spatie/browsershot along with the WP REST API on a cronjob. I actually used it for social preview images too! https://twitter.com/addy_codes. Each link has a hidden page that builds the social preview in HTML then the screenshot tool screenshots it for me.

We have an application that generates shipping documentation in PDF formats based on data pulled from our ERP software. I wrote this application myself and uses templates defined in CSS and then use this package to generate the PDF: https://github.com/spatie/browsershot

I've recently switched from wkhtmltopdf to https://github.com/spatie/browsershot.

I highly recommend using Chrome in headless mode using this package.

Browsershot is a software by Spatie that converts a webpage into an image or PDF by utilising a headless instance of Chrome. In this post, you will learn how to install it in your Laravel application and use it.

An alternative and a more popular solution to this is of course spatie/browsershot which does the same thing but using headless Chrome. I used to use Snappy years ago, but now I use Browsershot.

Has anyone managed to make Browsershot (https://github.com/spatie/browsershot) work on Laravel Vapor with docker ?