dskripchenko/laravel-php-pdf

Laravel bridge for dskripchenko/php-pdf — the pure-PHP, MIT-licensed PDF toolkit (generate, read, merge). No GPL friction, faster than mpdf/dompdf, and conformance-validated on every push.

Installation

composer require dskripchenko/laravel-php-pdf

The service provider and the Pdf facade register automatically (package discovery). Optionally publish the config:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=php-pdf-config

Usage

HTML → PDF

use Dskripchenko\LaravelPhpPdf\Facades\Pdf;

// bytes
$bytes = Pdf::fromHtml('<h1>Invoice #1234</h1>')->bytes();

// file
Pdf::fromHtml(view('invoices.show', $data)->render())->save(storage_path('invoice.pdf'));

// HTTP responses
Route::get('/invoice', fn () => Pdf::fromHtml($html)->inline('invoice.pdf'));
Route::get('/invoice/download', fn () => Pdf::fromHtml($html)->download('invoice.pdf'));

response()->pdf()

The macro accepts a PendingPdf, a php-pdf Document (either layer), or raw bytes — the mpdf Output('', 'D') habit, the Laravel way:

return response()->pdf(Pdf::fromHtml($html), 'invoice.pdf');               // inline
return response()->pdf(Pdf::fromHtml($html), 'invoice.pdf', inline: false); // download

Programmatic documents

$document = Pdf::builder()
    ->heading(1, 'Quarterly report')
    ->paragraph('Q1 revenue exceeded the forecast by 12%.')
    ->build();

return Pdf::render($document)->download('report.pdf');

Everything from the underlying toolkit is reachable — charts, barcodes, AcroForm fields, PDF/A, encryption, PKCS#7 signing, and reading/merging existing PDFs. See the php-pdf documentation.

Configuration

config/php-pdf.php controls page defaults and fonts:

'paper' => 'a4',              // a3..a6, letter, legal, tabloid, executive
'orientation' => 'portrait',
'margins' => ['top' => null, 'right' => null, 'bottom' => null, 'left' => null], // pt

'fonts' => [
    // Embedded TTFs (required for Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, CJK — the
    // base-14 defaults cover Latin only). Fonts are subset automatically.
    'default' => storage_path('fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf'),
    'bold' => storage_path('fonts/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf'),
    // Named families for CSS font-family / RunStyle(fontFamily: ...):
    'families' => [
        'mono' => ['regular' => storage_path('fonts/DejaVuSansMono.ttf')],
    ],
],

'metadata' => ['Author' => 'ACME Corp.'],  // default /Info entries

Migrating from laravel-mpdf / barryvdh wrappers

The underlying toolkit ships compat facades and guides for mpdf and FPDI call sites.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11, 12, or 13
• Extensions: mbstring, zlib, dom (plus openssl for encryption/signing)

Testing

composer test

License

MIT. The underlying dskripchenko/php-pdf is MIT as well — no GPL obligations anywhere in the stack.