dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer, it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. PDF rendering is currently provided either by PDFLib or by a bundled version the R&OS CPDF class written by Wayne Munro. (Some important changes have...
WebViewer UI sits on top of WebViewer, a powerful JavaScript-based PDF Library that's part of the PDFTron PDF SDK. Built in React, WebViewer UI provides a slick out-of-the-box responsive UI that interacts with the core library to view, annotate and manipulate PDFs that can be embedded into any web project. This repo is specifically designed for any users interested in advanced customizations. With the source code access, it gives developers full control to customize & style the UI, build...
...Because it relies on wkhtmltopdf, it supports complex HTML and CSS (including many types of fonts, layouts, and images) much better than many pure-PHP solutions. It’s commonly used for invoices, reports, tickets, labels, and any other server-side generated documents where consistent layout matters. The package is widely used in the Laravel ecosystem and has community documentation, tutorials, and integrations with other tools and CMSs based on Laravel.
PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
mPDF is a PHP library that generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML. The original author, Ian Back, wrote mPDF to output PDF files ‘on-the-fly’ from his website, handling different languages. It is slower than the original scripts e.g. HTML2FPDF and produces larger files when using Unicode fonts, but support for CSS styles etc. and has been much enhanced.
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