Which one is the best PDF-API for PHP

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Which one of these is the best PDF-API for PHP    ApacheFOP dompdf FPDF html2ps mPDF PDFlib TCPDF wkhtmltopdf Zend Pdf

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This is just a quick review of how fPDF stands up against tcPDF in the area of performance at each libraries most basic functions.

SPEED TEST

17.0366 seconds to process 2000 PDF files using fPDF || 79.5982 seconds to process 2000 PDF files using tcPDF

FILE SIZE CHECK (in bytes)

788 fPDF || 1,860 tcPDF

The code used was as identical as possible and renders just a clean PDF file with no text. This is also using the latest version of each library as of June 22, 2011.

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Personally I prefer to use dompdf for simple PDF pages as it is very quick   you simply feed it an HTML source and it will generate the required page      however for more complex designs i prefer the more classic pdflib which is available as a pecl for PHP  it has greater control over designs and allows you do do more complex designs like pixel-perfect forms

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http   sourceforge net projects html2ps   is the best if you need the css and 3c compatibily   if you can install software on your server  i suggest you to use http   wkhtmltopdf org    There is also a drupal module using wkhtmltopdf     PHP take many resources to convert html in pdf  imho  php is not the right language to do that  if you expect a large numbers of coversion or large files to convert

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personally i d rather go with tcpdf which is an ehnanced and mantained version of fpdf

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I found mpdf better than tcpdf in terms of html rendering  It can parse css styles much better and create pdf that look very similar to the original html    mpdf even supports css things like border-radius and gradient etc   I am surprised to see why mpdf is so less talked about when it comes to html to pdf   Check out the examples here http   www mpdf1 com mpdf index php page Examples  I found it useful for designing invoices  receipts and simple prints etc  However the website itself says that pdfs generated from mpdf tend to be larger in size

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The Zend Framework s Zend Pdf is really good  It s on par with pdflib in terms of control of output and complexity and is more portable because its a pure php solution  That said  its slower and uses more memory than pdflib   Pecl modules are always more efficient than a php solution   DOMPdf is the easiest way to make a pdf quickly  Like Mike said  feed it html and it outputs a pdf  Under the hood  it has the option to use either r amp ospdf or pdflib as the rendering engine

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Try TCPDF  I find it the best so far   For detailed tutorial on using the two most popular pdf generation classes  TCPDF and FPDF   please follow this link  PHP  Easily create PDF on the fly with TCPDF and FPDF  Hope it helps

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From the mpdf site   mPDF is a PHP class which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML  It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF  with a number of enhancements    mpdf is superior to FPDF for language handling and UTF-8 support   For CJK support it not only supports font embedding  but font subsetting  so your CJK PDFs are not oversized    TCPDF and FPDF have nothing on the UTF-8 and Font support of mpdf   It even comes with some open source fonts as of version 5 0

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I personally generate XSL FO from PHP and use Apache FOP to convert it to PDF  Not a PHP-native solution  not very efficient either  but it works well even if you need to generate PDF with very complex layouts

[php] Which one is the best PDF-API for PHP?

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