How to use dompdf for Custom Files?

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Dear all,I added this in ListOptions_Rendering:-
option 1. (without export=pdf)
$this->ListOptions->Items[“dlpdf”]->Body = “<a href="genpdf.php?id=”. CurrentPage()->id->CurrentValue .“" title="Download PDF" target="_blank"><span class="fa fa-file-pdf-o ew-icon" style="color: red">”;
option 2. (with export=pdf)
$this->ListOptions->Items[“dlpdf”]->Body = “<a href="genpdf.php?export=pdf&id=”. CurrentPage()->id->CurrentValue .“" title="Download PDF" target="_blank"><span class="fa fa-file-pdf-o ew-icon" style="color: red">”;So, I coded the custom file genpdf.php (with include common files checked) as

<?php echo $_GET["id"]."\n"; ?>

The results is OKAY.Now, with Tools → Extensions → dompdf (Enabled)
I modified the custom files genpdf.php (with include common files checked)

<?php $dompdf = new Dompdf\Dompdf(); $dompdf->loadHtml('hello world'); $dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape'); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream(); ?>

Error message => PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class ‘PHPMaker2020\testproj\Dompdf\Dompdf’ not found in /var/www/html/testproj/dlpdf.php:34\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n thrown in /var/www/html/testproj/dlpdf.php on line 34<?php $dompdf = new \Dompdf\Dompdf(); $dompdf->set_option('defaultFont', 'Courier'); // with or without this line $dompdf->loadHtml('hello world'); $dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape'); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream(); ?>
Error message => PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Dompdf\Exception: Unable to find a suitable font replacement for: ‘serif’ in /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/Css/Style.php:997\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/Css/Style.php(851): Dompdf\Css\Style->get_font_family()\n#1 /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/FrameReflower/Text.php(194): Dompdf\Css\Style->__get(‘font_family’)\n#2 /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/FrameReflower/Text.php(372): Dompdf\FrameReflower\Text->_layout_line()\n#3 /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/FrameDecorator/AbstractFrameDecorator.php(895): Dompdf\FrameReflower\Text->reflow(Object(Dompdf\FrameDecorator\Block))\n#4 /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/FrameReflower/Block.php(845): Dompdf\FrameDecorator\AbstractFrameDecorator->reflow(Object(Dompdf\FrameDecorator\Block))\n#5 /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/FrameDecorator/AbstractFrameDecorator.php(895): Dompdf\FrameReflower\Block->reflow(Object(Dompdf\FrameDecorator\ in /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/Css/Style.php on line 997But if I click on the default export to pdf for table, the result is fine. Just can’t use dompdf in custom files.Did I miss out any important step(s) on Custom Files to generate stream pdf?Thank in advance.Regards
scs

2

You’d better use CSS styles in your HTML, e.g.
body { font-family: DejaVuSans; }

3

Change as per mention above.Now the error changed from serif to dejavusans (Even with Courier, Times-Roman…).$html = “body {font-family: DejaVuSans;}Welcome”;
$dompdf->loadHtml($html);
Error message => PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Dompdf\Exception: Unable to find a suitable font replacement for: ‘dejavusans’ in /var/www/html/testproj/vendor/hkvstore/dompdf/src/Css/Style.php:997

4

Run composer update to update hkvstore/dompdf v0.8.303 and try again.

5

Now no more error and document.pdf generated but not able to open by Adobe Reader. Because the contain is text as stated below (some characters change to |)|!DOCTYPE html|
|html|
|head|
|title||/title|
|meta charset=“utf-8”|
|meta name=“viewport” content=“width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no”|
|link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“adminlte3/css/adminlte.css”|
|link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“plugins/fontawesome-free/css/all.min.css”|
|link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“plugins/fontawesome-free/css/v4-shims.css”|
|link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“css/OverlayScrollbars.min.css”|
|link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“css/Testproj.css”|
…

6

I only pass the below format to dompdf

<?php $dompdf = new \Dompdf\Dompdf(); $dompdf->loadHtml("Test"); $dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape'); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream(); ?>But the output (.pdf) become the previous attached text format.
7

Your code does work. You should add exit() after the outputting the PDF, otherwise your page continues to output the HTML.

8
<?php $dompdf = new \Dompdf\Dompdf(); $dompdf->loadHtml("Test"); $dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape'); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream(); exit(); ?>Output is TEXT base pdf (unreadable by acrobat reader). same as above output |!DOCTYPE html|...... <?php $dompdf = new \Dompdf\Dompdf(["pdf_backend" => "Cpdf"]); $dompdf->loadHtml("Test"); $dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'landscape'); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream(); exit(); ?>Same too
9

If your code is after some HTML output (e.g. after header.php), you should add ob_clean() before your code.