typesetterio/typesetter

The main typesetter service for generating PDFs from Markdown for ebooks.

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github.com/TypesetterIO/typesetter

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Typesetter

This is the Typesetter main service. This can be used in your own projects directly if you want. You probably want to head over to typesetter-cli though.

Install

This requires PHP 8.3 or above.

composer require typesetterio/typesetter

Usage

Build a Config from an array of options, then pass it to Typesetter::generate() to get a PDF binary back from MPDF.

Example:

$config = new \Typesetterio\Typesetter\Config([
    'title' => 'Benjamin Button',
    'author' => 'F. Scott Fitzgerald',
    'theme' => 'bb',

    'toc-enabled' => true,
    'toc-links' => true,
    'toc-header' => 'Table of Contents',

    'footer' => '{PAGENO}',

    'markdown-extensions' => ['md', 'markdown'],
    'observers' => [
        new \Typesetterio\Typesetter\Observers\DefaultMarkdownConfiguration(),
        new \Typesetterio\Typesetter\Observers\FirstElementInChapterCSSClass(),
        new \Typesetterio\Typesetter\Observers\BreakToPageBreak(),
        new \Typesetterio\Typesetter\Observers\Credits(),
    ],
]);

$service = new \Typesetterio\Typesetter\Typesetter();
$pdfContent = $service->generate($config);
file_put_contents('my-pdf.pdf', $pdfContent);

To learn more, please check out the documentation. This details configuration, customization, themes and cover generation, observers, listeners and more.

Demo

The demo/ directory contains a runnable example used for manual smoke testing. It includes a small theme, three Markdown chapters that exercise each bundled observer, and demo/run.php, which generates a PDF at demo/output.pdf (gitignored). Run it from the project root with php demo/run.php.

Credits

This was heavily influenced by the Ibis project but is a complete rewrite.

This package stands on the shoulders of giants like MPDF, some parts of Laravel and also the League Commonmark library.

Aaron Saray is the primary author and maintainer.