TCPDF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/) is the best tool to create booklet covers or non-template based PDFs. It’s excellently supports SVG, PNG and another graphic formats, however if you would like to generate PDF’s based on some HTML templates — it’s wrong tool:(

If you want to use HTML templates and create PDFs with look and feel of pure HTML pages — forget about TCPDF (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/) and use mPDF (http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/) instead.

Unfortunately, development of mPDF (http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/) has been suspended recently (http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=931&page=1#Item_1), but it’s still briliant in converting HTML to PDFwith full (or almost full) CSS3 support. However, unfortunately, mPDF doesn’t natively supports SVG format (I guess it uses GD-library for it), doesn’t allows to display SVGs with custom fonts, etc.

Unfortunately both major features (native SVG and HTML support) is crucial for me, so I decided to use both these libraries. I’m creating TCPDF to create the covers for my booklet, or some single pages with custom vector graphic (which I can modify on fly), and mPDF to create text reports, based on my HTML templates.

Actually, in some near future I could switch to mPDF completely, but it will happens if either, mPDF will have better support of custom graphic (including native support of SVG-format), or when Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) will allow to convert text-based SVGs to plain SVGs with outlined text. I guess this feature already implemented (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/903772), but doesn’t released yet officially in stable release. So let’s wait for Inkscape 0.49... I hope to be able to modify text in SVG-files, export them to SVGs with outlined path using command-line Inkscape tool (http://inkscape.org/doc/inkscape-man.html), then I will use outlined SVGs in mPDF (http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/).

Summary:

  – mPDF much more buggy than TCPDF. (TCPDF is extremely stable, it’s author Nicola Asuni very quickly fixes all found bugs, however reluctantly adding new features)
  – mPDF doesn’t support text and element strokes. (So, as it said above, if you would like to make some artwork, like booklet covers — use TCPDF instead.)
  – TCPDF doesn’t support normal HTML/CSS-rendering.

You decide what to use. I’m using them both.

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