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Package php-pdf
Short Description Pure-PHP, MIT-licensed PDF generator: low-level emission, fluent builders, HTML/CSS input, 16 barcode formats, 8 chart types, TTF embedding with kerning and ligatures, AcroForm, PKCS#7 signing, PDF/A and PDF/X conformance.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/dskripchenko/php-pdf
Package php-pdf
Short Description Pure-PHP, MIT-licensed PDF generator: low-level emission, fluent builders, HTML/CSS input, 16 barcode formats, 8 chart types, TTF embedding with kerning and ligatures, AcroForm, PKCS#7 signing, PDF/A and PDF/X conformance.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/dskripchenko/php-pdf
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Informations about the package php-pdf
dskripchenko/php-pdf
Pure-PHP, MIT-licensed PDF generator. A drop-in alternative for
mpdf/mpdf(GPL-2.0) — no licensing friction for OEM, on-premise installers, or proprietary bundles.
Languages: Deutsch
Contents
- Why this library
- Installation
- Quick start
- Feature highlights
- Documentation
- Performance
- Requirements
- Testing
- License
Why this library
Licensing. MIT is the most permissive PHP license — use the code anywhere, including closed-source products. Compare with the main PHP PDF stack:
| Library | License | OEM / proprietary bundle |
|---|---|---|
| dskripchenko/php-pdf | MIT | ✅ no friction |
| mpdf/mpdf | GPL-2.0-only | ❌ requires GPL bundle or commercial license |
| tecnickcom/tcpdf | LGPL-2.1+ | ⚠️ static-linking nuances |
| dompdf/dompdf | LGPL-2.1 | ⚠️ same as tcpdf |
| setasign/fpdf | re-licensable | ✅ but extras are proprietary |
Engineering.
- Modern PHP 8.2+ — readonly classes, enums, named arguments, strict types. Clean, type-safe API surface.
- Two-layer design —
Pdf\Documentfor low-level emission,Build\*fluent builders for high-level documents,Document::fromHtml()for HTML/CSS input. - Strong typography — Knuth–Plass line breaking, TTF subsetting with kerning, GSUB ligatures, ToUnicode CMaps, variable font instances, Bidi (UAX#9), Arabic shaping, basic Indic shaping, vertical writing.
- Widest barcode coverage — 12 linear + 4 2D formats including rare Pharmacode, MSI Plessey, ITF-14, EAN-2/5 add-ons.
- Production cryptography — RC4-128, AES-128, AES-256 (V5 R5 and R6 per ISO 32000-2 / PDF 2.0).
- PKCS#7 detached signing with placeholder /ByteRange auto-patching.
- PDF/A-1a / 1b / 2u and PDF/X-1a / 3 / 4 conformance with embedded sRGB ICC profile and XMP metadata.
- Tagged PDF / PDF/UA-ready structure tree with H1–H6, Table/TR/TD, L/LI, custom RoleMap, ParentTree number tree.
- Streaming output to a stream resource for large documents.
- XRef streams (PDF 1.5+) and Object Streams for compact output.
Installation
PHP 8.2 or later. Required extensions: mbstring, zlib, dom. Add
openssl for AES encryption or PKCS#7 signing.
Quick start
HTML → PDF
Programmatic builder
Low-level emission
Feature highlights
Input
- HTML5 subset parser via
Document::fromHtml(). - Block tags
<p>,<h1>–<h6>,<ul>/<ol>/<li>, tables (with<thead>/<tbody>/<tfoot>and<caption>),<blockquote>,<hr>,<pre>,<dl>/<dt>/<dd>. - Inline tags
<b>/<strong>,<i>/<em>,<u>,<s>/<del>,<sup>/<sub>,<br>,<a>,<span>, plus<code>,<kbd>,<samp>,<tt>,<var>,<mark>,<small>,<big>,<ins>,<cite>,<dfn>,<q>,<abbr>. - HTML5 semantic blocks (
<header>,<footer>,<article>,<nav>,<section>, etc.) and legacy<center>/<font>. - Inline CSS: color, background, font properties, text-align, text-decoration, text-transform, margin/padding shorthand, borders, line-height, text-indent.
Layout and typography
- Knuth–Plass box–glue–penalty line breaker with adaptive penalty.
- Multi-column layout (
ColumnSet) with column-first flow. - Tables with rowspan, colspan, border collapse, double borders, border radius, cell padding.
- Headers, footers, watermarks (text and image), section breaks.
- Footnotes with page-bottom positioning.
Fonts
- 14 Adobe base-14 fonts (WinAnsi).
- TTF embedding with on-demand subsetting (CFF and TrueType).
- Kerning, basic GSUB ligatures, ToUnicode CMap.
- Variable font instances (fvar, gvar, MVAR, HVAR, avar).
- Bidi (UAX#9), Arabic shaping, basic Indic shaping.
Barcodes
- Linear: Code 128 (A/B/C auto, GS1-128), Code 39, Code 93, Code 11, Codabar, ITF/ITF-14, MSI Plessey, Pharmacode, EAN-13/EAN-8 with 2/5- digit add-ons, UPC-A, UPC-E.
- 2D: QR V1–V10 (Numeric, Alphanumeric, Byte, Kanji, ECI, Structured Append, FNC1), Data Matrix ECC 200 (all sizes incl. 144×144, rectangular, 6 modes), PDF417 (Byte/Text/Numeric, Macro, GS1, ECI), Aztec Compact 1–4L + Full 5–32L (Structured Append, FLG/ECI).
- QR convenience factories: vCard 3.0, WiFi Joinware, mailto.
Charts
- BarChart, LineChart, PieChart, AreaChart, DonutChart, GroupedBarChart, StackedBarChart, MultiLineChart, ScatterChart.
Interactive
- AcroForm widgets: text (single / multiline / password), checkbox, radio, combo, list, push / submit / reset buttons, signature.
- Per-field JavaScript actions (keystroke, validate, calculate, format).
- Markup annotations: Text, Highlight, Underline, StrikeOut, FreeText, Square, Circle, Line, Stamp, Ink, Polygon, PolyLine.
Security and conformance
- Encryption: RC4-128, AES-128, AES-256 (V5 R5 + R6 / PDF 2.0).
- PKCS#7 detached signing with timestamp, reason, location, signer name.
- PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2u with embedded sRGB ICC.
- PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, PDF/X-4 with /OutputIntent /S /GTS_PDFX.
- Tagged PDF / PDF/UA-ready structure tree.
A complete usage walkthrough is in docs/en/USAGE.md.
Documentation
- 📖 Usage guide — paragraphs, tables, charts, barcodes, forms, encryption, signing, PDF/A.
- ⚖️ Comparison vs mpdf / tcpdf / dompdf / FPDF — feature matrix, when to choose each.
- 📊 Benchmarks — reproducible wall-time, memory, and output-size measurements.
Performance
Median of 5 isolated subprocess runs on macOS 25 / PHP 8.4. Full methodology and reproducer in docs/en/BENCHMARKS.md.
| Scenario | dskripchenko/php-pdf | mpdf | tcpdf | dompdf | FPDF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML → PDF article (~5 pages) | 10.8 ms | 61.1 ms | 36.1 ms | 46.9 ms | n/a |
| 100-page invoice (50 rows/page) | 518 ms | 2367 ms | 1349 ms | 8891 ms | 26 ms |
| Image grid (20 pages × 4) | 6.4 ms | 35.9 ms | 15.3 ms | 30.4 ms | 1.0 ms |
| Hello world (1 page) | 4.6 ms | 29.8 ms | 14.8 ms | 12.0 ms | 0.9 ms |
FPDF wins on the simplest scenarios (no HTML, no wrapping, no table flow), but it cannot generate HTML→PDF and lacks UTF-8, charts, barcodes, forms, encryption, signing.
Requirements
- PHP 8.2 or later.
- Required:
ext-mbstring,ext-zlib,ext-dom. - Optional:
ext-openssl(AES encryption and PKCS#7 signing). - No external binaries — pure PHP.
Testing
1977 tests, ~119k assertions, all passing on PHP 8.2 / 8.3 / 8.4.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
Copyright © 2026 Denis Skripchenko.
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