dompdf/PHP is not streaming the PDF, just showing the code in page

Question

I have a little problem with dompdf,

Instead of generating the PDF, the screen just shows the following code:

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Which I believe is the PDF binary string...

But why is dompdf not generating a PDF to save?

Tkz Roberto

Answer 1

Try adding headers to your php script (just before you write the pdf stream generated with DOMPDF):

header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="myfilename.pdf"');