[10 Solved Answers]-Convert HTML + CSS to PDF with PHP

PROBLEM

• we have an HTML (not XHTML) document that renders fine in Firefox 3 and IE 7. It uses fairly basic CSS to style it and renders fine in HTML.
• ways of converting it to PDF.
• DOMPDF: it had huge problems with tables. we figured out that our large nested tables and it helped (before it was just consuming up to 128M of memory then dying—that’s the limit of memory in php.ini) but it works completely in tables and not in images. The tables were just basic stuff with some border styles to add some lines at various points;
• HTML2PDF and HTML2PS: It rendered some of the images (all the images are Google Chart URLs) and the table formatting was much better but it seemed to have some complexity and it keeps dying with unknown node_type() errors.
• Htmldoc: It works fine on basic HTML but has almost no support for CSS whatsoever so we have to do everything in HTML so it’s useless to us.
• we tried a Windows app called Html2Pdf Pilot and it works perfect but we need something which slightly runs on Linux and ideally runs on-demand via PHP on the Webserver.

SOLUTION 1:

• use MPDF
• a) extract in our folder
• b) create file.php in our folder and insert such code:
• c) open file.php from our browser

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SOLUTION 2:

Use pdf to HTML:

• extract pdftohtml.exe to our root folder
• inside that folder, in anyfile.php file, Insert this code (assuming, there is a source example.pdf too)
• enter FinalFolder, and there will be the converted files (as many pages, as the source PDF had..)

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SOLUTION 3:

• Convert HTML to PDF in php:

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SOLUTION 4:

• converts a web page and sends the generated PDF as an HTTP

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SOLUTION 5:

• using HTML 2 FPDF

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SOLUTION 6:

• PDF from HTML file

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SOLUTION 7:

• TCPDF:

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SOLUTION 8:

• Using DOMPDF generate a PDF.

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SOLUTION 9:

• To generate pdf

 

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SOLUTION 10:

• Using PHP[pastacode lang=”php” manual=”%3C%3Fphp%0A%24dompdf%20%3D%20new%20DOMPDF()%3B%0A%24dompdf-%3Eset_paper(%22A4%22)%3B%0A%2F%2F%20load%20the%20html%20content%0A%24dompdf-%3Eload_html(%24html)%3B%0A%24dompdf-%3Erender()%3B%0A%24canvas%20%3D%20%24dompdf-%3Eget_canvas()%3B%0A%24font%20%3D%20Font_Metrics%3A%3Aget_font(%22helvetica%22%2C%20%22bold%22)%3B%0A%24canvas-%3Epage_text(16%2C%20800%2C%20%22Page%3A%20%7BPAGE_NUM%7D%20of%20%7BPAGE_COUNT%7D%22%2C%20%24font%2C%208%2C%20array(0%2C0%2C0))%3B%0A%24dompdf-%3Estream(%22sample.pdf%22%2Carray(%22Attachment%22%3D%3E0))%3B%0A” message=”php web development code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”/]
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