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1- How to generate PDF file using mPDF in PHP

    mPDF is a PHP library which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML.

Features

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• Supports almost all languages.
• CSS stylesheets.
• Watermarks (with customizable text angle).
• Images in JPG, GIF, PNG, SVG, BMP or WMF format.
• Password protection.
• Annotations.
• Barcodes (EAN13, UPC-A/E, Code 11, 39, 93, 128, Codabar, MSI, IMB, Planet, Postnet, RM4SCC etc.).
• Import another PDF file and use as a template.

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2-Generating PDF Files From Html Using TCPDF

Features

• all standard page formats, custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure.
• UTF-8 Unicode and Right-To-Left languages.
• TrueTypeUnicode, OpenTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1 and CID-0 fonts.
• font subsetting.
• methods to publish some XHTML + CSS code, Javascript and Forms.
• images, graphic (geometric figures) and transformation methods.
• supports JPEG, PNG and SVG images natively, all images supported by GD (GD, GD2, GD2PART, GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, XBM, XPM) and all images supported via ImagMagick (http: www.imagemagick.org/www/formats.html)
• 1D and 2D barcodes: CODE 39, ANSI MH10.8M-1983, USD-3, 3 of 9, CODE 93, USS-93, Standard 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, CODE 128 A/B/C, 2 and 5 Digits UPC-Based Extention, EAN 8, EAN 13, UPC-A, UPC-E, MSI, POSTNET, PLANET, RMS4CC (Royal Mail 4-state Customer Code), CBC (Customer Bar Code), KIX (Klant index - Customer index), Intelligent Mail Barcode, Onecode, USPS-B-3200, CODABAR, CODE 11, PHARMACODE, PHARMACODE TWO-TRACKS, Datamatrix ECC200, QR-Code, PDF417.
• ICC Color Profiles, Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Spot Colors and Transparencies.
• automatic page header and footer management.
• document encryption up to 256 bit and digital signature certifications.
• transactions to UNDO commands.
• PDF annotations, including links, text and file attachments.
• text rendering modes (fill, stroke and clipping).
• multiple columns mode.
• no-write page regions.
• bookmarks and table of content.
• text hyphenation.
• text stretching and spacing (tracking/kerning).
• automatic page break, line break and text alignments including justification.
• automatic page numbering and page groups.
• move and delete pages.
• page compression (requires php-zlib extension).
• XOBject templates.
• PDF/A-1b (ISO 19005-1:2005) support.

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3. PHP PDF Generation using FPDF

Features

• Page header and footer management.
• Automatic page break.
• Automatic line break and text justification.
• Image support (JPEG, PNG and GIF).
• Colors.
• Links.
• TrueType, Type1 and encryption support.
• Page compression.
• Free PDF generation libraries

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4. Convert HTML to PDF with Dompdf

Features

• 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

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