I am using DOMPDF to create a pdf out of my html page. I need to use a specific template for the pdf to be rendered on.
is there a way with DOMPDF to use a pdf template for dynamically creating an invoice?
What is the best way to handle this? Would I need to create the template with html and css?
If it's worth mentioning, I am using Zend2 and installed DOMPDF with composer
I will recommended to use zend\pdf instead of DOMPDF. First it will bit tough but later on you can get high level performance, even able to create 100 pages at one time.
Invoice generation using Zend Pdf
For your requirement dompdf is not a bad choice but
Noway you can put your template other than using HTML and CSS
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I'll change the template of the invoice pdf template in shopware 6.
The template self seems to be stored in the database in the table "document".
The pdf is generated by php.
Anyone knows, how to get a complete own customized template ?
The configuration in the backend is not enough.
Thank you.
I wrote an example Theme some time ago, that is extending the basic template: https://github.com/mnaczenski/SwagDocumentTemplate
The core template is located here:https://github.com/shopware/platform/blob/trunk/src/Core/Framework/Resources/views/documents/base.html.twig
So you can overwrite the file in your own theme like described in the documentation by extending the twig file and placing it in the right folder: https://developer.shopware.com/docs/guides/plugins/themes/theme-base-guide
Extend in Twig: {% sw_extends '#Framework/documents/base.html.twig' %}
Folder structure: /src/Resources/views/documents/base.html.twig
Generated PDFs are stored in the database due to German law, they can't be changed after generation. But new generated PDFs are based on the template.
The easiest way to customize your invoice templates is to use the WYSIWYG Document Editor. You can either customize an existing document or create a completely new document. Using one of the predefined document templates provides a good starting point for you to apply your customizations. But you can also start with a blank page.
With the visual editor, you can easily add new elements and variables and see your changes in the live preview. This will save you a lot of time in comparison to going back and forth hundreds of times between making adjustments in your Twig Files and generating new PDFs for testing.
Here is a YouTube Video, which shows you how easy and fast you can edit all your documents: https://youtu.be/fGBMDmVMPvA
I am the developer, which created the WYSIWYG Document Editor Shopware 6 App. Feel free to ask me any questions about the App. I am happy to help you.
I am trying to generate a PDF with both English and Arabic text. Please let me know if it can be done using salesforce and what should be the approach.
Visualforce page or email template has <apex:page renderAs="pdf"> attribute. Your safest choice of font will be "Arial Unicode MS", it's the only font with full unicode support. BUT it doesn't have bold variant so all your <b>, <th> etc will print with normal font weight.
If you need a different font / want to experiment - use this as base: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.pages.meta/pages/pages_output_pdf_supported_fonts.htm
Apex has similar method to pull another page (standard SF page or Visualforce) as PDF. But it'll be server-side generation, JavaScript on that page will not run so forget about some pretty printing of say aura components. Back to basics, raw HTML / Visualforce. PageReference.getContentAsPDF()
If it's not acceptable to you - there are some JavaScript PDF generators, for example jspdf (Git, demos) describes in Git readme how to integrate a custom font into it. These tend to be hit and miss, you'll have to experiment. And well, it'd be a JavaScript solution so then you'd need extra steps to save it to a file maybe or prompt download... And forget about making a VF email template with it, it'd have to be somehow saved to files/attachments first
I have a page where there are about 30 links and those links would have similar page except for a few contents changed(there is also pictuures). Now is there an efficient way to do that without repeating the codes and repeated nestings of the codes. thank you.
Using plain HTML you won't be able to do this.
The most straightforward way to do it, I think, is using server-side scripting to implement a rendering template. You could then have a default "main" template with everything those 30 pages have in common and then in each of those pages use the main template and load the custom content.
So if you want to modify something in the main template you'd only have to modify the main.html (or whatever you called it) page and not each of the 30 pages.
See this.
What's the recommended way to add content to my rails app ? pages with cloud hosted images like amazon s3& formatted text ?
What I want is just to create a tutorial pages that are easily linked with an index page.
Is there a recommended approach rather than re-inventing the wheel ? what's the popular gems out there ?
If you need fixed content you have just to create an html in the public folder with the html that you need, and link directly from your index view to them.
In order to store the images in the cloud, just upload them and put a reference link to your page fixed content to it.
Otherwise, if you are building a dynamic page that you may upload new images and etc...
Use the paperclip gem. It is a good way to not reinvent the wheel!
I would like to turn the HTML generated by my CFM page into a PDF, and have the user prompted with the standard "Save As" prompt when navigating to my page.
You should use the cfdocument tag (with format="PDF") to generate the PDF by placing it around the page you are generating. You'll want to specify a filename attribute, otherwise the document will just stream right to your browser.
After you have saved the content as a PDF, use cfheader and cfcontent in combination to output the PDF as an attachment ("Save As") and add the file to the response stream. I also added deletefile="Yes" on the cfcontent tag to keep the file system clean of the files.
<cfdocument format="PDF" filename="file.pdf" overwrite="Yes">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello World
</body>
</html>
</cfdocument>
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=file.pdf">
<cfcontent type="application/octet-stream" file="#expandPath('.')#\file.pdf" deletefile="Yes">
As an aside: I'm just using file.pdf for the filename in the example below, but you might want to use some random or session generated string for the filename to avoid problems resulting from race conditions.
If you want to avoid storing the PDF at all, using cfdocument without a filename will send the pdf (of flashpaper) directly to the browser without using the cfheader and cfcontent.
Caveat: Like with using cfheader/cfcontent, you need to do this before the cache gets flushed to the browser, since it's basically doing the same thing without having to store the file.
To get the content, I would probably use cfsavecontent wrapped around the same calls/includes/etc. that generate the page, with two major exceptions. cfdocument seems to have issues with external stylesheets, so using an include to put the styles directly into the document is probably a good idea. You can try using an #import instead -- it works for some people. Also, I'd be careful about relative links to images, as they can sometimes break.
The <cfdocument> approach is the sanctioned way to get it done, however it does not offer everything possible in the way of manipulating existing PDF documents. I had a project where I needed to generate coupons based using a pre-designed, print-resolution PDF template. <cfdocument> would have let me approximate the output, but only with bitmap images embedded in HTML. True, I could fake print-resolution by making a large image and scaling it in HTML, but the original was a nice, clean, vector-image file and I wanted to use that instead.
I ended up using a copy of <cfx_pdf> to get the job done. (Developer's Site, CF Tag Store) It's a CF wrapper around a Java PDF library that lets you manipulate existing PDF documents, including filling out PDF forms, setting permissions, merging files, drawing vector graphics, tables, and text, use custom fonts, etc, etc. If you are willing to work with it, you can get some pretty spectacular results.
The one drawback is that it appears the developer has left this product out to pasture for a long time. The developer site is still copyright 2003 and doesn't mention anything past ColdFusion MX 6.1. I ended up having to break some of the encrypted templates in order to fix a couple of bugs and make it work as I needed it to. Nontheless, it is a powerful tool.
I'm not that familiar with ColdFusion, but what you need to do is set the Content-Type of the page when the user requests it to be application/octet-stream. This will prompt them for a download every time.
Hope this helps!