w3scout/contao-dompdf-bundle

Use DOMPDF to export articles as PDF.

Contao DOMPDF Bundle

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About

Use DOMPDF to export articles as PDF.
DOMPDF is slower than TCPDF but provides better CSS support., _(*2)

Requirements

• PHP version >= 5.6.0
• DOM extension
• GD extension
• MBString extension
• php-font-lib
• php-svg-lib

Recommendations

• OPcache (OPcache, XCache, APC, etc.): improves performance
• IMagick or GMagick extension: improves image processing performance

More information on Dompdf

• Fonts and Character Encoding
• CSS Compatibility

Installation

Install composer if you haven't already, then enter this command in the main directory of your Contao installation:, _(*3)

composer require w3scout/contao-dompdf-bundle

Usage

• Login to the backend and enable Dompdf at the system settings.
• Go to the themes section of the backend and create a stylesheet (@media print) to style the PDF output