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Package declarative-pdf
Short Description A typed, declarative PDF generation library with a block-layout engine.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/mattsplat/declarative-pdf
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declarative-pdf
A reimagining of FPDF as a typed, declarative PDF library with a real
block-layout engine. Instead of driving a cursor (AddPage / SetFont /
Cell / Ln), you describe the document as an immutable tree of nodes and a
measure → paginate → render → serialise pipeline places everything.
Zero runtime dependencies beyond ext-zlib, ext-mbstring and ext-dom.
The immutable Pdf\Node\* tree is public too, for when you want to build or
transform it directly — see Getting started.
Gallery
Rendered by the scripts in examples/ — php examples/<name>.php.
| hello — the model in one page | styled — a house style via stylesheet | chart — bar / line / pie / sparkline |
| form — AcroForm fields, self-drawn | shapes — gradients + path clipping | sheet — ARCH D, absolute layout |
Install
Requires PHP 8.3+ with ext-zlib, ext-mbstring and ext-dom (the last
for SVG import; it ships enabled in stock PHP builds). ext-gd is needed to
decode GIF and WebP images; ext-iconv for font encodings other than
Windows-1252.
Features
- Layout engine — greedy line breaking with justification, box-model pagination (split / keep-together / keep-with-next / widow–orphan), explicit page breaks, header and footer closures with a real total page count.
- Text — UTF-8 in, transcoded per font; inline bold / italic / underline /
strike / super- and subscript / links / hard breaks / inline images; inline
HTML (
b i u s sup sub a br). - Style — inheritance, per-node-type stylesheet rules, named class rules,
a sparse
StylePatchfor per-node overrides. - Fonts — the 14 core fonts; embedded TrueType (subsetted) and OpenType/CFF;
named and numeric weights via
FontFace. - Tables — automatic column sizing (auto / fixed / fraction), repeating headers across pages, row and cell splitting, colspans, per-cell alignment and background.
- Images — JPEG, PNG (with soft mask), GIF, WebP — from a path, an
http(s)://URL or adata:URI; block or inline. - Vector drawing —
Pathwith Bézier segments, solid or gradient fills (axial and radial/Shading), stroke, fill rules, caps and joins;Clipto an arbitrary path. - Charts — a thin
Chartnode over the path API: bar, line, pie, sparkline with a nice-number axis and legends. - Interactive forms — text / checkbox / radio / dropdown / list box /
button / signature fields as
/AcroFormwith self-drawn appearance streams (no/NeedAppearances); native submit / reset; an opt-in Acrobat JavaScript layer (calculations, formatting, validation). - Navigation & structure — internal and external links, a bookmark outline,
large-format sheets, absolute-area layout (
place/placeImage/placePdf/framewithFit,BoxAlign,ShrinkMode). - PDF import — a pure-PHP reader for trusted, unencrypted PDFs; one page imported as a vector Form XObject.
- Deterministic — with a fixed clock,
compress: falseand a fixed producer string the output is byte-stable; the golden-file tests depend on it.
Documentation — docs/
| Getting started | install, first document, output destinations, determinism |
| Cookbook | task-oriented recipes for every feature |
| API reference | every builder method, node, style option, enum |
| Architecture | the pipeline, the box model, what was ported |
| Roadmap | what is planned, sized and prioritised |
| FPDF vs. declarative | the seven FPDF tutorials, side by side |
| Comparison | vs. FPDF / TCPDF / tc-lib-pdf / PDFBlocks — feature matrix, trade-offs |
| Interactive forms | AcroForm fields and the JavaScript caveat |
Not yet implemented — see the roadmap: CFF font subsetting, tagged PDF / PDF-A, XMP metadata, encryption, full document-to-document merge, FDF / XFDF, dash arrays.
Development
CI runs PHPStan + PHPUnit on PHP 8.3 and 8.4, plus a job that renders every
example and runs qpdf --check / pdftotext on the output. See
CONTRIBUTING.md.
Embedded fonts
tools/makefont/ is FPDF's offline builder for custom-font definitions:
Licence & attribution
MIT (LICENSE). This is a from-scratch reimagining of FPDF 1.9 —
the high-level API and layout engine are original; the byte-level PDF writer,
font metrics / embedding, ToUnicode CMaps and image decoders were ported from
FPDF (source comments citing fpdf.php:NNN refer to that release). FPDF's
permissive licence and the SIL Open Font License covering the bundled test /
example fonts are reproduced in NOTICE.
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