Converting HTML to PDF (not PDF to HTML) using PHP [closed]

Answer 1

One possibility: having the script automatically:

1. Take the web page
2. Open that page in a web browser
3. Take a screencap of that page
4. Turn it into a PDF

step 4 is easy - there are plenty of PHP/cmdline libraries that will let you put images onto a pdf or convert them (eg, fpdf.)

For steps 1-3... you might could try looking at the code from here: http://browsershots.org/. Not sure if it would be relevant - it seems like it requires a lot of setup. Maybe their architecture could work?

Answer 2

Regarding wkhtmltopdf:

• This thing works blazingly fast and it can also handle all kinds of HTML/CSS you throw at it, so when you need speed, you should seriosly consider it. We switch to it recently in our company and our PDF serving got enourmous speed-boost.

• At least under Linux it needs XOrg libraries to be installed - servers usually don't have them, so that might be your problem.