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Magento 2 PDF generator

Magento 2 module to ease the pdf generation using wkhtmltopdf features

Installation

composer require "staempfli/magento2-module-pdf":"~1.0"

Setup

Install wkhtmltopdf

This module needs wkhtmltopdf installed on your computer. You can download and install it from here:

https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html

NOTE: Do not install it using apt-get on Linux systems. See troubleshooting section for more info.

Module configuration

Stores > Configuration > Advanced PDF Generation

Admin Configuration

Usage

This module can generate a PDF from any frontControllerAction

Create you Controller path with the correspinding Blocks and .phtml templates

<!-- route_actions_generatePdf.xml -->
<layout xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:View/Layout/etc/layout_generic.xsd">
   <container name="root">
      <block class="Vendor\Package\Block\YourBlock" name="vendor.package.somename">
  </container>
</layout>

Return pdf instance on Controller

<?php
namespace Vendor\Package\Controller\Actions;

use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action;
use Staempfli\Pdf\Model\View\PdfResult;
use Staempfli\Pdf\Service\PdfOptions;

class GeneratePdf extends Action
{
	public function execute()
	{
    	return $this->renderPdfResult();
	}

	protected function renderPdfResult()
	{
    	/** @var PdfResult $result */
    	$result = $this->resultFactory->create(PdfResult::TYPE);
    	$result->addGlobalOptions(
      	  new PdfOptions(
         	   [
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_GLOBAL_TITLE => __('Return PDF'),
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_ENCODING => PdfOptions::ENCODING_UTF_8,
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_GLOBAL_ORIENTATION => PdfOptions::ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT,
         	       PdfOptions::FLAG_PAGE_PRINT_MEDIA_TYPE,
         	   ]
        	)
    	);
    	$result->addPageOptions(
      	  new PdfOptions(
         	   [
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_COOKIES => ${'_COOKIE'},
         	   ]
        	)
    	);
    	return $result;
	}
}

Header and Footer

Header and footer html can be added as follows:

Create your header.html and footer.html files inside your Module template dir

<!doctype html>
<!-- app/code/Vendor/Package/view/frontend/templates/pdf/header.html -->
<html>
	<body>
		Header text
    	</body>
</html>

<!doctype html>
<!-- app/code/Vendor/Package/view/frontend/templates/pdf/footer.html -->
<html>
		<body>
		Footer text
		</body>
</html>

Attach those files to the Controller pdf generation

<?php
namespace Vendor\Package\Controller\Actions;

use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Action;
use Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\File\Resolver as TemplateResolver;
use Staempfli\Pdf\Model\View\PdfResult;
use Staempfli\Pdf\Service\PdfOptions;

class GeneratePdf extends Action
{
    /**
 	     * @var TemplateResolver
	     */
	    private $templateResolver;

	    public function __construct(
    	TemplateResolver $templateResolver,
    	Context $context
	    ) {
   	        parent::__construct($context);
	$this->templateResolver = $templateResolver;
	    }

        public function execute()
	    {
            return $this->renderPdfResult();
	    }

	    protected function renderPdfResult()
	    {
    	/** @var PdfResult $result */
    	$result = $this->resultFactory->create(PdfResult::TYPE);
    	$result->addGlobalOptions(
      	  new PdfOptions(
         	   [
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_GLOBAL_TITLE => __('Return PDF'),
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_ENCODING => PdfOptions::ENCODING_UTF_8,
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_GLOBAL_ORIENTATION => PdfOptions::ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT,
         	       PdfOptions::FLAG_PAGE_PRINT_MEDIA_TYPE,
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_HEADER_SPACING => "10",
         	   ]
        	)
    	);
    	$result->addPageOptions(
      	  new PdfOptions(
         	   [
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_COOKIES => ${'_COOKIE'},
         	       PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_HEADER_HTML_URL => $this->templateResolver
                    ->getTemplateFileName('Vendor_Package::pdf/header.html'),
                PdfOptions::KEY_PAGE_FOOTER_HTML_URL => $this->templateResolver
                    ->getTemplateFileName('Vendor_ Package::pdf/footer.html'),
         	   ]
        	)
    	);
    	return $result;
	    }
}

NOTE: Only the header or only the footer as html is not possible, either both or none. Otherwise top and bottom margins are ignored.

Troubleshooting

The switch --print-media, is not support using unpatched qt:

wkhtmltopdf should not be installed via apt-get. See:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18758589/wkhtmltopdf-installation-error-on-ubuntu

Tiny or very small output on Mac:

It seems to be a bug on wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.4. It can be fixed by installing 0.12.3
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40814680/wkhtmltopdf-generates-tiny-output-on-mac

Requirements

PHP >= 7.0.*
Magento >= 2.1.*

Support

If you have any issues with this extension, open an issue on GitHub.

Contribution

Any contribution is highly appreciated. The best way to contribute code is to open a pull request on GitHub.