Latest stable release : v4.5.1 (2016-03-03)
HTML2PDF works with PHP 5.3.2 and above.
This package can be installed in your project through composer.
composer require spipu/html2pdf
If you wish to try html2pdf outside a main project, you can just clone the project and run composer:
git clone https://github.com/spipu/html2pdf.git
cd html2pdf
composer install
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Look at the examples provided to see how it works.
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It is very important to provide valid HTML 4.01 to the converter, but only what is in the
<body>
. Use the<page>
tag. -
for borders: it is advised that they are like
solid 1mm #000000
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for padding, they are applicable only on tags
table
,th
,td
,div
,li
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A default font can be specified, if the requested font does not exist or if no font is specified:
$html2pdf->setDefaultFont('Arial');
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The possibility to protect your PDF is present, CF Example 7.
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Some tests can be enabled (true) or disabled (false):
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setTestIsImage
method: test that images must exist -
setTestTdInOnePage
method: test that the contents of TDs fit on one page -
A DEBUG mode to know the resources used is present. It is activated by adding the following command just after the contructor (see Example 0):
$htmlpdf->setModeDebug();
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Some specific tags have been introduced:
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<page></page>
(CF Exemple 7 & wiki)- Determines the orientation, margins left, right, top and bottom, the background image
- and the background color of a page, its size and position, the footer.
- It is also possible to keep the header and footer of the previous pages,
- through the attribut
pageset="old"
(see Example 3 & 4 & wiki)
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<page_header></page_header>
(CF Example 3 & wiki) -
<page_footer></page_footer>
(CF Example 3 & wiki) -
<nobreak></nobreak>
(CF wiki)- Used to force the display of a section on the same page.
- If this section does not fit into the rest of the page, a page break is done before.
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<barcode></barcode>
(CF Examples 0 & 9 & wiki)- Can insert barcodes in pdfs, CF Examples 0 and 9
- the possible types of codebar are alls of TCPDF
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<qrcode></qrcode>
(CF Example 13 & wiki)- can insert QRcode 2D barcodes
- (QR Code is registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED | http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/)
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<bookmark></bookmark>
(CF Examples 7 & About & wiki)- Can insert bookmark in pdfs, CF Example 7 and About.
- It is also possible to automatically create an index at the end of document (CF Example About & wiki)
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css property
rotate
:- Values : 0, 90, 180, 270
- Works only on div (cf example 8)
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See on this page: http://html2pdf.fr/en/download
For questions and bug reports, please use the GitHub issues page. You may also find some help of the official forum (link below).
- Programmer: Spipu
- Web Site : http://html2pdf.fr/
- Wiki : http://html2pdf.fr/en/wiki
- Support : http://html2pdf.fr/en/forum
This program is distributed under the LGPL License,
for more information see the LICENSE file or go to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
Copyright 2008-2016 by Laurent Minguet
- Olivier Plathey: for have made FPDF
- Nicola Asuni: for the changes he has agreed to make to TCPDF
- yAronet: for hosting support forum
- Everyone who helped me to develop this library and to bring the texts