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Symfony Bundle for generating PDF using Gotenberg.

Features

• Easy provisioning with Symfony Flex, Symfony CLI, and Docker Compose. Just install the bundle and you're ready to generate your first PDF.
• Separated high-level interfaces in rekalogika/print-contracts. If Gotenberg gets out of fashion in the future, hopefully we only need to replace this package, and don't need to change our code.
• Abstractions for paper sizes and page layouts.
• Leverages Symfony HTTP Client. See the requests and responses in Symfony profiler for debugging.
• With the heavy lifting already done by Gotenberg, there is no need to deal with Chrome instances, CLI tools, Puppeteer, NodeJS, etc.
• Scalable architecture. Suitable for low-volume development and high-volume usage alike. No need to reengineer if your usage outgrows your solution. Just add more instances of Gotenberg with Docker Compose or the container orchestration tool you are using.

Installation

Preinstallation checklists:

• Make sure Composer is installed globally, as explained in the installation chapter of the Composer documentation. Run composer about to verify.
• Make sure your project has Symfony Flex installed and enabled (it is enabled by default). Run composer why symfony/flex to verify.

Open a command console, enter your project directory, and execute:

composer config extra.symfony.allow-contrib true
composer require rekalogika/gotenberg-pdf-bundle

Quick Start

Checklist:

• Make sure you have Docker Compose installed. Run docker compose version to verify.
• Make sure you have Symfony CLI installed. Run symfony version to verify.

To start the Gotenberg server (and other services registered in the Docker Compose configuration), run:

docker compose up -d

Then start the web server using Symfony CLI:

symfony serve

Create a sample controller for generating a PDF file:

namespace App\Controller;

use Rekalogika\Contracts\Print\PageOrientation;
use Rekalogika\Contracts\Print\PdfGeneratorInterface;
use Rekalogika\Print\PageLayout;
use Rekalogika\Print\Paper;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\AbstractController;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\StreamedResponse;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Annotation\Route;

class AppController extends AbstractController
{
    #[Route('/pdf')]
    public function index(PdfGeneratorInterface $pdfGenerator): Response
    {
        $pdf = $pdfGenerator->generatePdfFromHtml(
            htmlContent: '<h1>Hello World</h1>',
            paper: Paper::A4(),
            pageLayout: PageLayout::inMm(PageOrientation::Portrait, 30)
        );

        return new StreamedResponse(
            callback: fn () => fpassthru($pdf->detach()),
            status: 200,
            headers: [
                'Content-Type' => 'application/pdf',
            ]
        );
    }
}

Then open your browser and go to http://localhost:8000/pdf.

Documentation

rekalogika/gotenberg-pdf-bundle

License

MIT

Contributing

The rekalogika/gotenberg-pdf-bundle repository is a read-only repo split from the main repo. Issues and pull requests should be submitted to the rekalogika/print-src monorepo.