Requirements

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  1. DOMPDF driver
  2. Browsershot driver (default)
  3. Gotenberg driver
  4. WeasyPrint driver
  5. Cloudflare driver

The laravel-pdf package requires PHP 8.2+ and Laravel 11+.

The additional requirements depend on which driver you use:

The DOMPDF driver uses dompdf/dompdf for pure PHP PDF generation. No external binaries are required. Just install the package:

composer require dompdf/dompdf

The Browsershot driver uses Browsershot under the hood to generate PDFs. You can find the necessary requirements here. This includes Node.js and a Chrome/Chromium binary.

The Gotenberg driver uses Gotenberg, an open-source Docker-based API for PDF generation. You will need:

  • A running Gotenberg instance (easily started with docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 gotenberg/gotenberg:8)

The WeasyPrint driver uses WeasyPrint, a Python-based PDF generation tool with excellent CSS Paged Media support. You will need:

  • The WeasyPrint binary installed on your system (installation guide)
  • The PHP wrapper package: composer require pontedilana/php-weasyprint

The Cloudflare driver uses Cloudflare's Browser Rendering API. This driver does not require Node.js or a Chrome binary on your server. You will need:

  • A Cloudflare account with the Browser Rendering API enabled
  • A Cloudflare API token with the appropriate permissions
  • Your Cloudflare account ID
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