I'm working on installing dompdf http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/
It's going well, but the installation instructions are telling me to "edit dompdf_config.custom.inc.php (in version 0.6) or dompdf_config.inc.php (version 0.5) to fit your installation." I am not sure what lines I am supposed to uncomment. I am using it on an Ubuntu Server (10.04) with the generic lamp stack, intending to code in PHP.
Has anyone used this that can at least explain (at least some of) what the different options are.
<?php
//define("DOMPDF_TEMP_DIR", "/tmp");
//define("DOMPDF_CHROOT", DOMPDF_DIR);
//define("DOMPDF_UNICODE_ENABLED", false);
//define("DOMPDF_PDF_BACKEND", "PDFLib");
//define("DOMPDF_DEFAULT_MEDIA_TYPE", "print");
//define("DOMPDF_DEFAULT_PAPER_SIZE", "letter");
//define("DOMPDF_DEFAULT_FONT", "serif");
//define("DOMPDF_DPI", 72);
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_PHP", true);
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_REMOTE", true);
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_CSS_FLOAT", true);
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_JAVASCRIPT", false);
//define("DEBUGPNG", true);
//define("DEBUGKEEPTEMP", true);
//define("DEBUGCSS", true);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT", true);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_LINES", false);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_BLOCKS", false);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_INLINE", false);
//define("DOMPDF_FONT_HEIGHT_RATIO", 1.0);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_PADDINGBOX", false);
//define("DOMPDF_LOG_OUTPUT_FILE", DOMPDF_FONT_DIR."log.htm");
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_HTML5PARSER", true);
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_FONTSUBSETTING", true);
// DOMPDF authentication
//define("DOMPDF_ADMIN_USERNAME", "user");
//define("DOMPDF_ADMIN_PASSWORD", "password");
You don't need to edit any of the settings to start using dompdf. All of the settings have defaults, and dompdf may work right out of the box. All the settings are explained in dompdf_config.inc.php, and this is also where the defaults are set. But here's a quick list of the setting to pay the most attention to:
sys_get_temp_dir()
$dompdf->load_html_file()
to load a file from the local file system it needs to be under the directory specified in this setting. Default = dompdf installation directoryAnd the config: (dompdf_config.custom.inc)
//define("DOMPDF_TEMP_DIR", "/tmp");
//define("DOMPDF_CHROOT", DOMPDF_DIR);
define("DOMPDF_UNICODE_ENABLED", true);
//define("DOMPDF_PDF_BACKEND", "PDFLib");
define("DOMPDF_DEFAULT_MEDIA_TYPE", "print");
define("DOMPDF_DEFAULT_PAPER_SIZE", "A4");
//define("DOMPDF_DEFAULT_FONT", "serif");
define("DOMPDF_DPI", 300);
define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_PHP", true);
define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_REMOTE", true);
define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_CSS_FLOAT", true);
//define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_JAVASCRIPT", false);
//define("DEBUGPNG", true);
//define("DEBUGKEEPTEMP", true);
//define("DEBUGCSS", true);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT", true);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_LINES", false);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_BLOCKS", false);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_INLINE", false);
//define("DOMPDF_FONT_HEIGHT_RATIO", 1.0);
//define("DEBUG_LAYOUT_PADDINGBOX", false);
//define("DOMPDF_LOG_OUTPUT_FILE", DOMPDF_FONT_DIR."log.htm");
define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_HTML5PARSER", true);
define("DOMPDF_ENABLE_FONTSUBSETTING", true);
// DOMPDF authentication
define("DOMPDF_ADMIN_USERNAME", "admin");
define("DOMPDF_ADMIN_PASSWORD", "anypassword");