Html to pdf If your php application needs to generate some kind of pdf report then the simplest approach would be to generate the report as an html and then convert it to pdf using some library. Plenty of libraries are available that can convert html to pdf in php. To name a few -… Read More »
Imagick In a previous article we saw how to use to create a snapshot or thumbnail of the pdf. Now we are going to do the same in php using the Imagick class which provides the bindings for imagemagick library inside php. The library is available in the form of a class Imagick that does… Read More »
Imagemagick Imagemagick is a commandline program/utility that can be used to perform a variety of image manipulations. It supports most image formats. It also has programming apis for various languages like php, python etc making it easy to use as a library. Install Imagemagick on Ubuntu On ubuntu install it by typing the following in… Read More »
MPDF Many php applications need to create pdf of documents like invoice , receipt and even id card etc. In this article we shall create a pdf invoice using the mpdf pdf creation library. Mpdf is made in php without any other external library. Mpdf parses css much better than any other free pdf libraries… Read More »