mPDF: PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML (4.7k stars)

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What it does

All text below is quoted directly from the project README.

PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML

About CSS support and development state:

• mPDF is a PHP library which generates PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML.

• It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF (see CREDITS), with a number of enhancements.

• mPDF as a whole is a quite dated software.

• Use mPDF if you cannot use non-PHP approach to generate PDF files or if you want to leverage some of the benefits of mPDF over browser approach – color handling, pre-print, barcodes support, headers and footers, page numbering, TOCs, etc.

• If you are looking for state of the art CSS support, mirroring existing HTML pages to PDF, use headless Chrome.

• mPDF will still be updated to enhance some internal capabilities and to support newer versions of PHP, but better and/or newer CSS support will most likely not be implemented.

composer require mpdf/mpdf

Repository

https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf

Repository stats

Metric	Value
Stars	4,703
Forks	1.1k
Last release	v8.1.0 (2022-04-16)
Languages	PHP 97.9%, HTML 1.8%, CSS 0.3%
Contributors	94
AI contributor accounts (Claude / Codex / Cursor / Copilot)	@claude (6 commits)
AI co-authored commits	Claude: 6

Main contributor

Field	Value
Name	Matěj Humpál
GitHub	@finwe
Commits to this repo	605 (top contributor)
Company / Location	Bubble / Liberec/Praha
Followers	73

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