Write html to an existing pdf

[John Milton]

Hi,

Is there a way to write html string to an existing pdf using dompdf?

Please help me.


Thanks

[BrianS]

On Monday, March 21, 2011 12:52:16 AM UTC-4, John Milton wrote:

Is there a way to write html string to an existing pdf using dompdf?

DOMPDF does not include this type of functionality. You could use DOMPDF to render your HTML string into PDF format, but then you would need to use a library such as FPDI to add it to an existing PDF document.

[Denis Liamkin]

So essentially do you mean merging a pdf on top of another pdf?

[BrianS]

That is correct.

[Denis Liamkin]

Theoretically, if I went ahead and used DOMPDF to render a PDF file, do you know any code that could merge a PDF to an existing PDF? I want to make sure that if this merge is made, neither of the PDF's will first be converted into images (lose quality from any text vectors in the process).

[Denis Liamkin]

To be a little more specific, I can't see any example code anywhere online that takes two PDF files in FPDF and merges the two together.

[BrianS]

You are correct, FPDF isn't usually used directly for PDF merging, but a number of libraries are built on top of FPDF to do just that.

Check out Setassign's FDPI (https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/about/). Or you can abstract a bit more and use a library built on top of FPDF such as libmergepdf (https://github.com/hanneskod/libmergepdf).

[Kashan Rasheed]

I wanna Write html to an existing pdf but can't alots of confusion there

[BrianS]

If you have a question you should start a new thread and provide some details.