Best PDF generator?

After use some of them, the fastest and better is wkhtmltopdf. http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

There is a wrapper for it. Snappy PDF/Image Wrapper for Laravel 5 https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-snappy

+1 for wkhtmltopdf, it is definitely the best you can find

I'm not sure if you're open to using a front-end library, but I've had decent luck with jsPDF ( http://parall.ax/products/jspdf ).

Admittedly, I'm not very pleased with their documentation.. I had to do a lot of digging through the source to find certain methods. I had a short Twitter conversation with the main developer and he said there's a major revision on its way with some interesting HTML-to-PDF translation capabilities. Hopefully the docs improve.

+1 for wkhtmltopdf, it is specially useful when using a css framework like twitter bootstrap or zurb foundation, the others simply destroy what I preview in the browser.

Someone knows any library that convert HTML to PDF and allow paginate correctly, break page correctly and ...?

I use in one old app HTML + Chrome PDF Printer, but there are many bugs in rendering...

@EliasSoares for consistent page breaks you can use CSS like this

@media print {
    footer {page-break-after: always;}
}

I created a blog for snappy pdf (wrapper of wkhtmltopdf) with any php project.You can follow this http://www.kingpabel.com/php-html-to-pdf-snappy/

@carkis

This works fine, but my biggest problem is with page-break-before: always | avoid...

In my case, we "draw" an entire tour guide dinamically, and it need to be nicely formated... :/ Also page numbers don't work...

I think that the best is to draw the PDF manualy! :/

You can try PhantomMagick. PhantomMagick provides a simple API to ease the process of converting HTML to PDF or images.

https://github.com/anam-hossain/phantommagick

Features

• Convert HTML to a PDF
• Convert HTML to an image (PNG, JPG or GIF)
• Support multipage PDFs
• Capture a web page as a screenshot
• Save PDF or image to local disk or to the cloud (S3, Dropbox or Rackspace)
• Framework agnostic, with optional Laravel integration

https://github.com/anam-hossain/phantommagick

You can use dom pdf to generate pdf from html https://desertebs.com/laravel/laravel-6-export-to-pdf-using-laravel-dom-pdf