File type plain text document (text/plain) is not supported. error in dompdf

[Anita Yadav]

Hello team,

Plz help me out..:(

I am using dompdf lib files to create dyanamic pdf. But when it downloads and after opening it, gives error Unable to open document.

and also pdf is not empty, content is printing, but not opening properly.

I am using joomla based application with using dompdf library.

Following is the system details

System Information

Setting	Value
PHP Built On	Linux Anita-PC 3.2.0-55-generic-pae #85-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 2 14:03:15 UTC 2013 i686
Database Version	5.1.61
Database Collation	utf8_general_ci
PHP Version	5.3.10-1ubuntu3.9
Web Server	Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
WebServer to PHP Interface	apache2handler
Joomla! Version	Joomla! 2.5.13 Stable [ Ember ] 24-July-2013 14:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version	Joomla Platform 11.4.0 Stable [ Brian Kernighan ] 03-Jan-2012 00:00 GMT
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.63 Safari/537.36

and also attaching the 1 .php file and 1 .pdf file.

Please review and reply soon.

[BrianS]

If you open your PDF in a text editor (Notepad, TextEdit, vi, etc) you will see that some CSS has been captured in the output stream. It wasn't obvious to me when looking briefly at the PHP where this was happening, but I would guess it's happening in a loop somewhere based on the repeating nature of the styling. Here's a sample:

<style>
  body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .latestItemDateCreated, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .latestItemCategory span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .latestItemTagsBlock span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .catItemDateCreated, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .catItemAuthor, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .catItemCategory span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .catItemTagsBlock span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .tagItemDateCreated, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .tagItemCategory span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .userItemDateCreated, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .userItemCategory span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .userItemTagsBlock span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemDateCreated, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemAuthor, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemTextResizerTitle, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemRatingBlock, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemRatingBlock span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemContentFooter, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemCategory span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemTagsBlock span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .genericItemHeader span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .genericItemCategory span, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .latestItemsCategory h2 a, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemListCategory h2, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemListSubCategories .subCategory h2, body.main-body-style-dark #k2Container .itemListSubCategories .subCategory h2 a{ color : #000 !important; }
</style>

That's your first problem, and maybe if you fix it the PDF display issues will go away. But I did see a problem with the PDF content having been truncated. This truncation may be related, but it's hard to say until you address that issue.