• mPDF
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Configuration
    • CSS
  • Experiments in overriding default output of mPDF
    • A4 Landscape on all pages
    • A4 Landscape for just one page

Please mind, that mPDF does not work in/behind an http-password protected directory; at least not with a simple standart installation without extra configuration.




This is the Steps 1 and 2 by hand

files/mpdf

vendor_custom/mpdf

in a structure like this (recommended example):

a "container" for the project:
     /myproject
a directory for the filegallery (do not use the database for file upload!):
     /myproject/files/*
the Tikiroot (main installation):
     /myproject/tiki16
and here the extracted mpdf directory:
     /myproject/mpdf

graph_cache

tmp

ttfontdata

sudo apt-get install composer

composer require mpdf/mpdf --update-no-dev

php temp/composer.phar require mpdf/mpdf "6.1.3" --update-no-dev

mPDF in Tiki17 is vastly improved compared to Tiki15 and Tiki16 (and it will be even better in Tiki18).



See also: PluginPDF



Known issue (solved in Tiki18): if you have text with .tiki, it will be truncated. So doc.tiki.org will become doc.org

php temp/composer.phar require mpdf/mpdf 6.1

From Tiki18 you can install mPDF via the Composer Web Installer



You can test this with the current Trunk version (pre-18)



See also: PluginPDF

Although mPDF should work with Tiki out of the box even on average shared hosting, when you followed the above steps, you will have "only a basic configuration" at this point. There are tons of options that allow you to play with additional Fonts, creating paginated PDF documents, hiding the source URL etc., which you will find in the manual (see above references).

Main configuration of mPDF is located in */mpdf/config.php plus a number of more specific config files in the same directory.

This is for Tiki 15, and no longer needed in Tiki 17.

There are some CSS rules in an array in config.php (starting around line 330) for simple modifications of the documents' appearance, if no separate CSS file is used. Follow the pattern of the rules already present. CSS shorthand is not supported. For example, to add lines between table rows, change this:

'TD' => array(
		'PADDING-LEFT' => '0.1em',
		'PADDING-RIGHT' => '0.1em',
		'PADDING-TOP' => '0.2em',
		'PADDING-BOTTOM' => '0.2em',
	),

to this:

'TD' => array(
		'PADDING-LEFT' => '0.1em',
		'PADDING-RIGHT' => '0.1em',
		'PADDING-TOP' => '0.2em',
		'PADDING-BOTTOM' => '0.2em',
		'BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR' => 'gray',
		'BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE' => 'solid',
		'BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH' => '1px',
	),

Reference: https://mpdf.github.io/paging/different-page-sizes.html

This is for Tiki 15, and no longer needed in Tiki 17, as we now can use PluginPDF

@page {
    sheet-size: A4-L;
}

This is for Tiki 15, and no longer needed in Tiki 17, as we now can use PluginPDF

{HTML()}

{HTML}

general overview about PDF creation in Tiki
mPDF create PDFs from Tiki content (advanced library that works even on shared hosting)
PluginPDF alter default settings of mPDF per wiki page
PluginPDFPageBreak add a page break for PDFs created with mPDF
wkhtmltopdf create PDFs from Tiki content (needs root installation)
dompdf used for pdf print of slideshows
PluginMediaPlayer display PDF file from file gallery
PluginArchiveBuilder
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