Is possible convert HTML into pdf using Zend_Pdf?

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Is possible convert directly HTML into a pdf file using Zend_Pdf?, if so, How can I do that?

Nope, I don't think this is what it was built for. http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.pdf.introduction.html — Pekka, Mar 03 '11 at 16:09
Although this might be Frankenstein-ish (and not really an answer to your question) I've used PHP to generate content, send the output buffer to a file, and used _wkhtmltopdf_ to generate PDFs. — Guttsy, Mar 03 '11 at 16:47

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '11 at 18:30

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Zend_PDF isn't able to generate PDF based on HTML. But you can render view and use other library for convert it to PDF. I've done such thing with TCPDF. Little code snippet below:

    //SomeController.php
    $this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();

    //set content for view here

    // create new PDF document        
    require_once('tcpdf/tcpdf.php');
    $pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false); 

    //whole TCPDF's settings goes here

    $htmlcontent = $this->view->render('recipe/topdf.phtml');
    // output the HTML content
    $pdf->writeHTML($htmlcontent, true, 0, true, 0);
    $pdf->lastPage();
    $pdf->Output("pdf-name.pdf", 'D');

answered Mar 03 '11 at 18:30

Radek Benkel

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Is there a chance you could go into more detail of an example of what somecontroller.php would be, and what goes in 'set content for view here'? Thanks! – joren Oct 18 '12 at 13:26
@joren It's the exact same way in which you create normal controllers in ZF: `SomeController extends Zend_Controller_Action`. Same with view: `$this->view->foo = 'bar'`. Whole trick is to render page as normal ZF page, but instead outputing it into screen, you catch this into variable `$htmlcontent` and pass to TCPDF `writeHTML()` method. – Radek Benkel Oct 18 '12 at 17:48
Thanks! I ended up working around it a different way, bu this help. – joren Oct 18 '12 at 21:01
like the approach but didn't work for me since i need to pass variable in the view via $this->view->entities= $entities All i got it the first th column... Any Hint? – Marcel Djaman Feb 04 '14 at 16:20
sorry it was about unclosed tags – Marcel Djaman Feb 04 '14 at 18:22

Rajan Rawal · Answer 2 · 2013-08-15T09:36:31.100

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Check out MPDF . The ultimate one. Create your html with inline css, store it in one php variable and echo to pdf file. you are done!!!

edited Aug 15 '13 at 09:36

answered May 15 '13 at 07:17

Rajan Rawal

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '11 at 18:54

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tcpdf is a little limited when it comes to html, wkhtmltopdf uses webkit

answered Mar 03 '11 at 18:54

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The question is regarding zend_pdf for which tcppdf, dompdf and mpdf are more sutiable. – SP Singh Jun 14 '17 at 01:53

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 07 '12 at 22:51

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i've used dompdf https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf its pretty easy and straight forward. it even reads/formats css.

edited Dec 07 '12 at 22:51

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answered Mar 05 '11 at 09:07

Jane Yun

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I tried to use dompdf for generating pdf from html, but it has a really annoying (known) issue: it puts a few empty pages between two table rows (at least in 0.6.0 beta 3) – Zsolti Aug 06 '12 at 08:13

Is possible convert HTML into pdf using Zend_Pdf?

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