Converting HTML to Output the body content to PDF
Question
I'm looking for a way to convert the content in the body of a HTML webpage into a pdf when a button/image (link) is clicked.
I looked into jspdf and mPDF, but those solutions aren't quite producing what I want.
I'd like the entire contents between the body tags to be what a user can save as PDF - preferably with all of the styling (or as much as possible) preserved.
Shouldn't it be as simple as some code that essentially produces a screen shot of the page (although that might include unnecessary things such as URL bar, etc., and would likely render the PDF unsearchable in whatever storage set up that the user saves it to (but that isn't a priority right now)?
Summing up, I'm looking to have code (preferably some simple JS) that will achieve this goal of capturing content in the body tags, and saving it to a PDF at the user's command.
Thanks for attention and any insight :-)
2 answers
solution1
0 2015-07-14 19:49:22
try using dompdf, you can download it from here . If you get any error,
- Create the dompdf/lib/php-font-lib/classes/ directory
- Download this files
- In the zip file, take the contents of the src/FontLib/ folder and paste that into dompdf/lib/php-font-lib/classes/ folder
usage
require_once 'dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php';
$html = "<html><body>HTML CODE
</body></html>";
$pdf = new DOMPDF();
$pdf->load_html($html);
$pdf->render();
$output = $pdf->output();
file_put_contents('output folder/file name.pdf', $output);
$pdf->stream('file name.pdf', array('Attachment' => 0));
solution2
0 2015-07-21 17:11:24
make one php file which will contain code that will generate PDF file
ex. demo.php, this file will contain below code
require_once 'dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php';
$html = file_get_contents('test.html');
$pdf = new DOMPDF();
$pdf->load_html($html);
$pdf->render();
$output = $pdf->output();
file_put_contents('output folder/file name.pdf', $output);
$pdf->stream('file name.pdf', array('Attachment' => 0));
now make html file which will contain what you want to desplay you in your pdf file
ex. test.html
<html>
<body>
<h2>Hello</h2>
</body>
</html>
now, when you will open demo.php you will get pdf file with Hello text
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