• Handles most CSS 2.1 and a few CSS3 properties, including @import, @media & @page rules
• Supports most presentational HTML 4.0 attributes
• Supports external stylesheets, either local or through http/ftp (via fopen-wrappers)
• Supports complex tables, including row & column spans, separate & collapsed border models, individual cell styling
• Image support (gif, png (8, 24 and 32 bit with alpha channel), bmp & jpeg)
• No dependencies on external PDF libraries, thanks to the R&OS PDF class
• Inline PHP support
• Basic SVG support (see "Limitations" below)

• PHP version 8.0 or higher
• DOM extension
• MBString extension
• php-font-lib
• php-svg-lib

Note that some required dependencies may have further dependencies (notably php-svg-lib requires sabberworm/php-css-parser).

• GD (for image processing)
  • Additionally, the IMagick or GMagick extension improves image processing performance for certain image types
• OPcache (OPcache, XCache, APC, etc.): improves performance

Visit the wiki for more information: https://github.com/flawlessnode/dompdf-utf8/wiki/Requirements

PDF documents internally support the following fonts: Helvetica, Times-Roman, Courier, Zapf-Dingbats, & Symbol. These fonts only support Windows ANSI encoding. In order for a PDF to display characters that are not available in Windows ANSI, you must supply an external font. Dompdf will embed any referenced font in the PDF so long as it has been pre-loaded or is accessible to dompdf and reference in CSS @font-face rules. See the font overview for more information on how to use fonts.

The DejaVu TrueType fonts have been pre-installed to give dompdf decent Unicode character coverage by default. To use the DejaVu fonts reference the font in your stylesheet, e.g. body { font-family: DejaVu Sans; } (for DejaVu Sans). The following DejaVu 2.34 fonts are available: DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Serif, and DejaVu Sans Mono.

To install with Composer, simply require the latest version of this package.

composer require flawlessnode/dompdf-utf8

Make sure that the autoload file from Composer is loaded.

// somewhere early in your project's loading, require the Composer autoloader
// see: http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Just pass your HTML in to dompdf and stream the output:

// reference the Dompdf namespace
use Dompdf\Dompdf;

// instantiate and use the dompdf class
$dompdf = new Dompdf();
$dompdf->loadHtml('hello world');

// (Optional) Setup the paper size and orientation
$dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape');

// Render the HTML as PDF
$dompdf->render();

// Output the generated PDF to Browser
$dompdf->stream();

Set options during dompdf instantiation:

use Dompdf\Dompdf;
use Dompdf\Options;

$options = new Options();
$options->set('defaultFont', 'Courier');
$dompdf = new Dompdf($options);

or at run time

use Dompdf\Dompdf;

$dompdf = new Dompdf();
$options = $dompdf->getOptions();
$options->setDefaultFont('Courier');
$dompdf->setOptions($options);

See Dompdf\Options for a list of available options.

In order to protect potentially sensitive information Dompdf imposes restrictions on files referenced from the local file system or the web.

Files accessed through web-based protocols have the following requirements:

• The Dompdf option "isRemoteEnabled" must be set to "true"
• PHP must either have the curl extension enabled or the allow_url_fopen setting set to true

Files accessed through the local file system have the following requirement:

• The file must fall within the path(s) specified for the Dompdf "chroot" option

• Table cells are not pageable, meaning a table row must fit on a single page: See https://github.com/flawlessnode/dompdf-utf8/issues/98
• Elements are rendered on the active page when they are parsed.
• Embedding "raw" SVG's (<svg><path...></svg>) isn't working yet: See https://github.com/flawlessnode/dompdf-utf8/issues/320
  Workaround: Either link to an external SVG file, or use a DataURI like this:

  $html = '<img src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,' . base64_encode($svg) . '">';

• Does not support CSS flexbox: See https://github.com/flawlessnode/dompdf-utf8/issues/971
• Does not support CSS Grid: See https://github.com/flawlessnode/dompdf-utf8/issues/2988
• A single Dompdf instance should not be used to render more than one HTML document because persisted parsing and rendering artifacts can impact future renders.

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