Craft CMS PDF Generator Plugin
Stack: Craft CMS PHP mPDF Twig Composer GitHub
The Problem
Craft CMS projects often need documents generated from content stored in the control panel: catalogs, product sheets, reports, invoices or downloadable materials. Preparing every file manually becomes inconvenient, while adding an external SaaS platform is not always justified.
What I Built
I developed PDF Generator, a plugin that connects Craft CMS with the mPDF library. A document can be rendered from a Twig template, an HTML block or an external URL.
The plugin provides two main methods:
pdf(): generates a document and returns a URL for download or inline browser preview,pdfAsset(): stores the generated file as a Craft CMS asset, making it possible to use volumes, caching and the standard asset workflow.
Useful Features
- custom fonts and document styling,
- text and image watermarks,
- automatic table of contents and bookmarks based on headings,
- QR codes and PDF thumbnails,
- password protection and document permissions,
- PDF/A and PDF/X formats with CMYK conversion,
- multiple paper sizes and RTL layouts.
Where It Fits
The extension is useful when documents should be generated from content managed in the CMS. It can handle a single downloadable file or become part of a larger publishing workflow. Active installs on 09.06.2024 are 222.
Availability
The plugin supports Craft CMS 3, 4 and 5. The code is publicly available on GitHub and in the Craft Plugin Store. It can be installed with Composer:
composer require cooltronicpl/document-helpers
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Do you need PDF generation in Craft CMS? Tell me briefly how the documents should be used.