Level 75
Microsoft Office 2007 Word does this.
Jun 24, 2015
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Level 50
Convert image files and docs to PDF
Hello!
I was wondering how can I convert image files(JPEG,png, etc.) and docs (.doc, .docx, .xls, .txt, etc.) to a PDF file?
Level 50
@jlrdw I guess I wasn't clear. I need to do it in my application. The user uploads a file from the list specified above, and I need to conver it.
Level 13
You need to look around. Here may help. You are not gonna find a boxed up solution. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord
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Level 50
@jimmck I don't mind writing my own wrapper around some other PHP classes. That's quite a big class, will have to learn how it works.
Do you know any image to PDF class?
Level 10
@kfirba to do the image to pdf conversion, you probably will have to use an html to pdf php library that supports images and then do some sort of image embedded in html to convert to pdf.
Level 50
@isaackearl I've actually just found a solution, that was pretty easy tbh:
$file = storage_path('test.jpg');
$image = new Imagick($file);
$image->setImageFormat('pdf');
$image->writeImage(storage_path('test.pdf'));
return "Done";
Just before we are using this, we will need to install some packages:
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev imagemagick php5-imagick
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm restart
Now I just need to find a way to convert doc/docx file :x
Level 50
@isaackearl @jimmck I wanted to keep you updated, I've actually find a fine solution for my issue.
Convert Images to PDF
Before we can use the PHP library, we will need to install few dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev imagemagick php5-imagick
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm restart
Now we can simply use it like so:
$file = storage_path('test.jpg');
$image = new Imagick($file);
$image->setImageFormat('pdf');
$image->writeImage(storage_path('test.pdf'));
return "Done";
Convert doc, docx, xls, txt etc. to PDF
In order to do that, we will use libreoffice which can do that for us with no effort at all. We will install the most basic installation of libreoffice as we only need the command line:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice --no-install-recommends
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-calc # <- this one if for .xls files
It will install around 400MB of data on your server just so you know.
Now, when we want to convert a file to PDF:
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf output.pdf input.docx
We can combine the command above with Symfony Process object or just call it with exec method. I would recommend put all converting in a queue so the user won't need to wait until it's done.
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Level 2
@kfirba I am also using libreoffice to convert a docx to pdf but am having some issues with the path and was wondering whether you also found this?
I am trying to save the converted pdf to the storage path but it keeps going into the public folder for some reason. Even though the docx is being read from the storage path (and also saved to the storage path using phpword).
libreoffice --headless --invisible --convert-to pdf /home/vagrant/Code/homestead.app/storage/reports/report.pdf /home/vagrant/Code/desuto.app/storage/reports/report.docx
Any ideas?
SOLVED: Just had to change directory in the storage path first.
chdir(storage_path().'/reports');
Level 1
Late to the party, but, here is a solution I found to be cleaner using DomPDF.
composer require barryvdh/laravel-dompdf
Then create a view:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Certificate</title>
<style>
img {
width: auto;
height: 100%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<img src="<?php echo $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . $cert_url; ?>" alt="Certificate">
</body>
</html>
Then create a function in a controller for the download link:
public function getPdf(){
$pdf = Pdf::loadView('certificatepdf', [
'cert_url' => $course->certificate_image_url
]);
return $pdf
->setOption(['dpi' => 150])
->setPaper('a4', 'landscape')
->download($pdfname);
}
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