Level 43
Hi. you can use html2pdf Library: https://github.com/iafan/html2pdf
Mar 19, 2020
5
Level 1
Fill PDF template
Hi!
I have tried to find a laravel 6 package to fill in fields in existing pdf templates but so fare I have not found any working package.
- Dompdf, not possible to fill in PDF forms, just create pdf
- Fpdf packages such as anouar/fpdf, I have tried different php packages put not been able to get it to work. (problem such as eg; don't install illuminate/support 5.5.x-dev|don't install laravel/framework v7.2.0" when trying to run "composer require " -Mpdf, also no luck
Question: Does it exist a working laravel 6 packages that make it possible to fill in data to existing PDF forms/template?
Best regards, Luc
Level 1
Hi!
Thx for the advice, unfortunately html2pdf does not support to fill in fields/forms in existing pdf-files/templates.
Are there any other package that support to fill in data to existing PDF-files. (to write data to fields in an existing PDF-file.
Best regards, Luc
Level 43
Hi,
I had to do the same for one of my client. I read this at the time they asked me: https://answers.acrobatusers.com/Generating-PDF-file-website-dynamic-data-q113782.aspx
The solution I actually found is to create an html form and validate all the data, then write on a PDF template. Of course the PDF is not a form editable PDF, but it works for my client…
Level 2
@LucKa, did you find a solution for this? I had been using the Laravel package mikehaertl/php-pdftk to do this, but it stopped working when I upgraded to Laravel 6 and I couldn't find out why. It uses PDFtk on the backend. So I'm looking for an alternative way to fill out PDF forms with a data array from my app.
Level 1
On Laravel 8, I used FPDF
composer require codedge/laravel-fpdf
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Codedge\Fpdf\FpdfServiceProvider" --tag=config
I also had to install FPDM composer require tmw/fpdm
On controller
use Codedge\Fpdf\Fpdf\Fpdf;
use FPDM;
I also needed to save the PDF document in the Pro version of PDFTK ( i bought it for a few bucks)
Under Advanced settings you must put in Advanced Output Options: %PDFTK% %PDFIN% output %PDFOUT%
See screenshot on last post of this page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43535455/fpdf-merge-error-number-of-objects-22-differs-with-number-of-xrefs-23-some
Add PDF > Create PDF
Upload the PDF to your site
Then the example on the documentation works
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