lara-pdf-merger
Drop-in replacement for the original package from deltaaskii/lara-pdf-merger that works under PHP 7.4
Original written by http://pdfmerger.codeplex.com/team/view
This Package was tested on Laravel 7.0
Improvements
- Code source refactoring
- Enabling the Facade use
- Adding duplex merge feature
- Seperate save operation from the merge
Installation
- Require this package in your composer.json by adding those lines
composer require daltcore/lara-pdf-merger
- Run this commend in your terminal
composer updateLaravel <5.5:
After updating composer, add the ServiceProvider to the providers array in config/app.php
LynX39\LaraPdfMerger\PdfMergerServiceProvider::class,You can optionally use the facade for shorter code. Add this to your facades:
'PdfMerger' => LynX39\LaraPdfMerger\Facades\PdfMerger::class,Usage
use LynX39\LaraPdfMerger\Facades\PdfMerger;
//...
$pdfMerger = PDFMerger::init(); //Initialize the merger
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/one.pdf', '1, 3, 4');
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/two.pdf', '1-2');
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/three.pdf', 'all');
//You can optionally specify a different orientation for each PDF
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/one.pdf', '1, 3, 4', 'L');
$pdfMerger->addPDF('samplepdfs/two.pdf', '1-2', 'P');
$pdfMerger->merge(); //For a normal merge (No blank page added)
// OR..
$pdfMerger->duplexMerge(); //Merges your provided PDFs and adds blank pages between documents as needed to allow duplex printing
// optional parameter can be passed to the merge functions for orientation (P for protrait, L for Landscape).
// This will be used for every PDF that doesn't have an orientation specified
$pdfMerger->save("file_path.pdf");
// OR...
$pdfMerger->save("file_name.pdf", "download");
// REPLACE 'download' WITH 'browser', 'download', 'string', or 'file' for output optionsAuthors
Credits
- deltaaskii deltaaskii/lara-pdf-merger
- DALTCORE DALTCORE/lara-pdf-merger