Creating PDFs | laravel-pdf | Spatie

 SPATIE

  Laravel PDF
==============

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  [Docs](https://spatie.be/docs)  [Laravel-pdf](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2)  Basic-usage  Creating PDFs

 Version   v2   v1

 Other versions for crawler [v2](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2) [v1](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v1)

- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/introduction)
- [ Support us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/support-us)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/requirements)
- [ Installation & setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/installation-setup)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/questions-issues)
- [ Alternatives ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/alternatives)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/changelog)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/about-us)

Basic usage
-----------

- [ Creating PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/creating-pdfs)
- [ Responding with PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/responding-with-pdfs)
- [ Formatting PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/formatting-pdfs)
- [ Saving PDFs to disks ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/saving-pdfs-to-disks)
- [ Queued PDF generation ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/queued-pdf-generation)
- [ Testing PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/testing-pdfs)
- [ Setting defaults ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/setting-defaults)

Drivers
-------

- [ Configuration ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/configuration)
- [ Customizing Browsershot ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/customizing-browsershot)
- [ Using the Cloudflare driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-cloudflare-driver)
- [ Using the DOMPDF driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-dompdf-driver)
- [ Generating PDFs on AWS Lambda ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/generating-pdfs-on-aws-lambda)
- [ Using the Gotenberg driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-gotenberg-driver)
- [ Using the WeasyPrint driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-weasyprint-driver)
- [ Custom drivers ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/custom-drivers)

Advanced usage
--------------

- [ Creating PDFs with multiple pages ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/advanced-usage/creating-pdfs-with-multiple-pages)
- [ Using Tailwind ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/advanced-usage/using-tailwind)
- [ Extending with Macros ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/advanced-usage/extending-with-macros)

 Creating PDFs
=============

###  On this page

1. [ Using JavaScript ](#content-using-javascript)

This package can be used to create PDFs from HTML. In a Laravel application the easiest way to generate some HTML is to use a Blade view.

Here's an example where we are going to create a PDF from a Blade view.

```
use Spatie\LaravelPdf\Facades\Pdf;

Pdf::view('pdf.invoice')->save('/some/directory/invoice.pdf');
```

As a second parameter, you can pass an array of data that will be made available in the view. You might use that to pass an Eloquent model, such as an invoice, to the view.

```
use Spatie\LaravelPdf\Facades\Pdf;

Pdf::view('pdf.invoice', ['invoice' => $invoice])
    ->save('/some/directory/invoice.pdf');
```

You can also create a PDF from a string of HTML.

```
use Spatie\LaravelPdf\Facades\Pdf;

Pdf::html('Hello world!!')->save('/some/directory/invoice.pdf');
```

Using JavaScript
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When using a browser-based driver (Browsershot or Cloudflare), the JavaScript in your HTML will be executed when the PDF is created. You could use this to have a JavaScript charting library render a chart. The DomPDF driver does not support JavaScript execution.

Here's a simple example. If you have this Blade view...

```

    document.getElementById('target').innerHTML = 'hello';

```

... and render it with this code...

```
use Spatie\LaravelPdf\Facades\Pdf;

Pdf::view('your-view')->save($pathToPdf);
```

... the text `hello` will be visible in the PDF.