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[Drupal] How to handle PDF generation of custom path using MPDF module in Drupal
I had a requirement in one of my Drupal project to generate PDF from HTML. I had implemented the PDF file from HTML using the module MPDF. Let me explain you the following configurations for its working :
- Download the Drupal 'libraries' module and extract it in 'sites/all/modules/'.
- Download pdf_using_mpdf.tar.gz from 'https://www.drupal.org/project/pdf_using_mpdf', extract in 'sites/all/modules', rename the folder as 'mpdf' and enabled the 'mpdf' module.
- Download the 'MPDF' library from 'http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/index.php?page=Download', stored it in 'sites/all/libraries' and rename the folder as 'mpdf'.
- Correct the folder permissions of all MPDF folder in 'sites/all/modules', 'sites/all/libraries', sometimes it will be read-only.
- Add the permissions for the necessary users in 'people/permissions' using 'PDF using mPDF' option.
- Configure 'PDF using mPDF settings' in 'admin/config/user-interface/mpdf' for designing and configuring the generating PDF files. Here, we can set 'Open PDF File in', 'Watermark Option', 'PDF Header & Footer Option' etc.
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After the above configuration,
- I have created a page callback with supporting menus and functions to fetch data for PDF generation.
- Then I used, pdf_using_mpdf_api(), with 2 parameters. First parameter for the data to display in PDF file and the second one for the name for the PDF file.
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