/html2pdf_fork

This is an html2pdf repo containing fixes and updates not included in the original source (which is unmantained since 2011-05)

Primary LanguagePHP


This program is distributed under the LGPL License, for more information see file _LGPL.txt or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

Copyright 2008-2011 by Laurent Minguet


This is an html2pdf repo containing fixes and updates not included in the original source (unmantained since 2011-05).

This code is based on: HTML2PDF v4.03 - 2011-05-27

Patched by Daniele Di Sarli. Look at commit history for info.


How to use :

  • You need at least PHP 5

  • Look at the examples provided to see how it works.

  • It is very important to provide valid HTML 4.01 to the converter, but only what is in the

  • for borders: it is advised that they are like "solid 1mm #000000"

  • for padding, they are applicable only on tags table, th, td, div, li

  • A default font can be specified, if the requested font does not exist or if no font is specified: $html2pdf->setDefaultFont('Arial');

  • The possibility to protect your PDF is present, CF Example 7.

  • Some tests can be enabled (true) or disabled (false) :

    • setTestIsImage method: test that images must exist
    • setTestTdInOnePage method: test that the contents of TDs fit on one page
    • setTestIsDeprecated method: test that old properties of specific tags are not used anymore
  • 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();

  • Some specific tags have been introduced:

    • (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)

    • <page_header></page_header> (CF Example 3 & wiki)

    • <page_footer></page_footer> (CF Example 3 & wiki)

    • (cd 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.

    • (CF Examples 0 & 9 & wiki) can insert barcodes in pdfs, CF Examples 0 and 9 The possible types of codebar are alls of TCPDF

    • (CF Example 13 & wiki) can insert QRcode 2D barcodes (QR Code is registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED | http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/)

    • (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)

    • css property "rotate" : values : 0, 90, 180, 270 works only on div (cf example 8)

change log :

see on this page : http://html2pdf.fr/en/download

Help & Support :

For questions and bug reports, thank you to use only the support link below. I will answer to your questions only on it...

Informations :

Programmer : Spipu email : webmaster@html2pdf.fr web site : http://html2pdf.fr/ wiki : http://html2pdf.fr/en/wiki support : http://html2pdf.fr/en/forum

Thanks :

  • 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