staempfli/magento2-module-pdf 1.0.1

Staempfli PDF generator.

Type

magento2-module

License

OSL-3.0

Requires
  • magento/framework ~100.1.2
  • magento/module-backend ~100.1.1
  • mikehaertl/phpwkhtmltopdf 2.1.0
  • php ~5.6.0|~7.0.0
Requires (dev)

None

Suggests

None

Provides

None

Conflicts

None

Replaces

None

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:

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

  1. 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>

  2. 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:

  1. 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>

  2. 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.

Developer

Staempfli Webteam, Fabian Schmengler, integer_net and all other contributors

License

Open Software License ("OSL") v. 3.0

Copyright

(c) 2018, Stämpfli AG

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