Level 30
Mar 23, 2015
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Level 2
Creating invoices
Hi, I've been looking the best way to generate an pdf-invoice. I have found dompdf and snappy to create pdfs but im looking a way to put via coordinates strings of text because i print it on a already printed invoice. I also saw the cashier package but i didnt find specific way to coordinates. What do you think the best practice is?
Level 2
None of the above allows to use coordinates to put strings. But thanks for the reply!
Level 3
You can use (allthough it's quite messy) absolute positioning of div containers in the html. So you "can" use coordinates
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Level 2
Yes, you are right, but I dont think is the best practice for my case. I am looking something like "cell(x,y, string)". I found fpdf allows it but not sure how to install the library not using composer (because https://packagist.org/packages/anouar/fpdf is on L4) any ideas? Thanks!
Level 4
That Laravel 4 package of FPDF seems to just be the FPDF library with a service provider and a facade added, you should be able to create these yourself for L5:
https://github.com/xroot/laravel-fpdf/blob/master/src/Anouar/Fpdf/FpdfServiceProvider.php https://github.com/xroot/laravel-fpdf/blob/master/src/Anouar/Fpdf/Facades/Fpdf.php
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Level 3
This plugin is using fpdf, I'm currently using this as a base and tweaking the output to match my needs.
http://codecanyon.net/item/invoicr-php-class-for-beautiful-invoices/8829220
To get it working in L5, I added the directory into a new libraries directory in the root and added the path to my autoload in composer.
Level 3
@idolan you can try my package: https://github.com/anam-hossain/phantommagick
This package support raw HTML for pdf conversion. I hope you will like it.
Level 5
@anam Does your package allow passing a view? Or is it just straight html?
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