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I am trying to understand what is the interest of HTML2PDF versus using directly TCPDF. In order words, What are the benifit of HTML2PDF ? Why it's better that use directly TCPDF ?
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asked Mar 17 '11 09:03
Any error stating 'TCPDF' means that there was a problem with the generation of the PDF file.
TCPDF is a free and open source software PHP class for generating PDF documents. TCPDF is the only PHP-based library that includes complete support for UTF-8 Unicode and right-to-left languages, including the bidirectional algorithm.
Go to their github page https://github.com/tecnickcom/tcpdf either download to desktop or git clone.
$tcpdf = new TCPDF_TCPDF(); $img = file_get_contents(Mage::getBaseDir('media') . '/dhl/logo. jpg'); $PDF_HEADER_LOGO = $tcpdf->Image('@' . $img);//any image file.
as you know HTML2PDF (for PHP 5.x) is based on TCPDF.
HTML2PDF handles HTML better than TCPDF, and HTML2PDF can use CSS Classes, and have a couple more of cool functions, specially for dynamic content which TCPDF alone does not handle well. think of it as "TCPDF++"
Download HTML2PDF or go to their website and look at the examples, they will show you better than me!!
Don't forget to set set_time_limit() when generating large documents, to know why look @ this post.
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answered Sep 29 '22 09:09
For some developers, it is faster to write a template that produces specific HTML instead of expressly making all of the necessary API calls to build the PDF one piece of text and one box at a time.
I'm personally a big fan of wkhtmltopdf, which uses the popular, powerful and standards-compliant WebKit rendering engine. Most common HTML-to-PDF programs either don't understand CSS, or understand CSS poorly.
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