README

About

Generates pdf files without any dependencies. Includes a layout engine to improve handling of flowing content (e.g. text spanning more than one page).

composer require famoser/pdf-generator

This is still under active development (contributions welcome!), and the public API is subject to change. If you are looking for a more mature project, see https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF.

Getting started

Using the printer:

// places "Hello world" at coordinate (15/60) coordinates
$document = new LinearDocument();
$bodyText = new TextStyle(Font::createFromDefault());
$printer = $document->createPrinter(0, 15, 60);
$printer->printText("Hello world", $bodyText);
file_put_contents('example.pdf', $document->save());

Using the layout engine:

// places a 20x40 rectangle, followed by "Hello world.".
// placement is decided by Flow. 
$flow = new Flow();

$rectangle = new Rectangle(new DrawingStyle());
$rectangleContent = new ContentBlock($rectangle);
$rectangleContent->setWidth(20);
$rectangleContent->setHeight(40);
$flow->addContent($rectangleContent);

$paragraph = new Paragraph();
$paragraph->add($normalText, "Hello ");
$paragraph->add($normalText, "World.");
$flow->addContent($paragraph);

$document->add($flow);
file_put_contents('example.pdf', $document->save());

Layout engine particulars:

Layouts can be nested (e.g. you can place a flow in another flow)
width (height) includes the padding, but not the margin
margin does not collapse with adjacent margins
drawings are ignored during size calculations (e.g. borderWidth has no influence on the calculated width of an element
width (height) of a child overrides width (height) of a parent

Example

Invoice

Code | .pdf

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