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Informations about the package mpdf-light
Light mPDF
Light mPDF is a lightweight fork of mpdf/mpdf that comes without bundled fonts. By excluding the fonts, the package size is significantly reduced from approximately 95 MB to just 7 MB. This makes Light mPDF ideal for projects that don’t require the default fonts and prefer a smaller footprint.
It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF (see CREDITS), with a number of enhancements. mPDF was written by Ian Back and is released under the GNU GPL v2 licence.
⚠ If you are viewing this file on mPDF GitHub repository homepage or on Packagist, please note that the default repository branch is
developmentwhich can differ from the last stable release.
Installation
Official installation method is via composer and its packagist package einhasad/mpdf-light.
Usage
The simplest usage (since version 7.0) of the library would be as follows:
This will output the PDF inline to the browser as application/pdf Content-type.
Requirements
PHP extensions
PHP mbstring and gd extensions have to be loaded.
Additional extensions may be required for some advanced features such as zlib for compression of output and
embedded resources such as fonts, bcmath for generating barcodes or xml for character set conversion
and SVG handling.
Known server caveats
mPDF has some problems with fetching external HTTP resources with single threaded servers such as php -S. A proper
server such as nginx (php-fpm) or Apache is recommended.
Setup & Configuration
All configuration directives can
be set by the $config parameter of the constructor.
It is recommended to set one's own temporary directory via tempDir configuration variable.
The directory must have write permissions (mode 775 is recommended) for users using mPDF
(typically cli, webserver, fpm).
Warning: mPDF will clean up old temporary files in the temporary directory. Choose a path dedicated to mPDF only.
By default, the temporary directory will be inside vendor directory and will have write permissions from
post_install composer script.
For more information about custom temporary directory see the note on Folder for temporary files in the section on Installation & Setup in the manual.
If you have problems, please read the section on troubleshooting in the manual.
About CSS support and development state
mPDF as a whole is a quite dated software. Nowadays, better alternatives are available, albeit not written in PHP.
Use mPDF if you cannot use non-PHP approach to generate PDF files or if you want to leverage some of the benefits of mPDF over browser approach – color handling, pre-print, barcodes support, headers and footers, page numbering, TOCs, etc. But beware that a HTML/CSS template tailored for mPDF might be necessary.
If you are looking for state of the art CSS support, mirroring existing HTML pages to PDF, use headless Chrome.
mPDF will still be updated to enhance some internal capabilities and to support newer versions of PHP, but better and/or newer CSS support will most likely not be implemented.
Online manual
Online manual is available at https://mpdf.github.io/.
General troubleshooting
For general questions or troubleshooting please use Discussions.
You can also use the mpdf tag at Stack Overflow as the StackOverflow user base is more likely to answer you in a timely manner.
Contributing
Before submitting issues and pull requests please read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
Unit Testing
Unit testing for mPDF is done using PHPUnit.
To get started, run composer install from the command line while in the mPDF root directory
(you'll need composer installed first).
To execute tests, run composer test from the command line while in the mPDF root directory.
Any assistance writing unit tests for mPDF is greatly appreciated. If you'd like to help, please
note that any PHP file located in the /tests/ directory will be autoloaded when unit testing.
All versions of mpdf-light with dependencies
ext-gd Version *
ext-mbstring Version *
mpdf/psr-http-message-shim Version ^1.0 || ^2.0
mpdf/psr-log-aware-trait Version ^2.0 || ^3.0
myclabs/deep-copy Version ^1.7
paragonie/random_compat Version ^1.4|^2.0|^9.99.99
psr/http-message Version ^1.0 || ^2.0
psr/log Version ^1.0 || ^2.0 || ^3.0
setasign/fpdi Version ^2.1