Generate PDF from .docx generated by PHPWord

Question

I am creating .docx files from a template using PHPWord. It works fine but now I want to convert the generated file to PDF.

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Answer 1

Try this:

// get the name of the input PDF
$inputFile = "C:\\PHP\\Test1.docx";

// get the name of the output MS-WORD file
$outputFile = "C:\\PHP\\Test1.pdf";

try
    {
    $oLoader = new COM("easyPDF.Loader.8");
    $oPrinter = $oLoader->LoadObject("easyPDF.Printer.8");
    $oPrintJob = $oPrinter->PrintJob;
    $oPrintJob->PrintOut ($inputFile, $outputFile);
    print "Success";
    }


catch(com_exception $e)
    {
    Print "error code".$e->getcode(). "\n";
    print $e->getMessage();
    }

Answer 2

I used Gears/pdf to convert the docx file generated by phpword to PDF:

$success = Gears\Pdf::convert(
            'file_path/file_name.docx',
            'file_path/file_name.pdf');

Answer 3

I don't think I'm correct.. You save the document as HTML content

$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($phpWord, 'HTML');

After than you read the HTML file content and write the content as PDF file with the help of mPDF or tcPdf or fpdf.

Answer 4

You're trying to unlink the PDF file before saving it, and you have also to unlink the DOCX document, not the PDF one.

Try this.

$pdfWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::createWriter($wordPdf , 'PDF');    
$pdfWriter->save($filename.".pdf");
unlink($wordPdf);