I am having problems exporting Excel files to .pdf format using DOMPDF. I'm using PHPExcel (1.7.9, 2013-06-02), TCPDF (6.2.13) and Dompdf (0.7.0). For the moment the testing of Dompdf is done on a Win10/Wampserver 3.0 machine, but I'll have to use it on live server (Apache2.2.22 and PHP5.4.35). All three packages work OK if used alone, as expected (PHPExcel and TCPDF for more than three years on both test and live servers, and Dompdf was installed just recently on the test bed). In addition I've been able to produce .pdf files with PHPExcel and TCPDF. The code is practically the same as in some of the PHPExcel examples and the crucial part is the following:
require_once __phpexcel__ . 'PHPExcel.php';
PHPExcel_Settings::setPdfRenderer(PHPExcel_Settings::PDF_RENDERER_TCPDF, __tcpdf__);`
Where __phpexcel__ and __tcpdf__ are constants pointing to the directories where the PHPExcel.php and tcpdf.php reside. PHPExcel+TCPDF work fine, but they produce a rather large .pdf file (1.2MB for couple of cells with UTF-8 characters).
However, if I try to convert the same .xlsx file using Dompdf I have a problem. The crucial code in this case is
require_once __phpexcel__ . 'PHPExcel.php';
PHPExcel_Settings::setPdfRenderer(PHPExcel_Settings::PDF_RENDERER_DOMPDF, __dompdf__);`
__dompdf__ in this case is the directory where Dompdf files reside (among others: dirs lib, etc and autoload.inc.php).
The error I receive is:
Fatal error: Class 'DOMPDF' not found in phpexcel\PHPExcel\Writer\PDF\DomPDF.php on line 36.
After examining the file __phpexcel__\PHPExcel\Writer\PDF\DomPDF.php I found that line 30 in that file is $pdfRendererClassFile = PHPExcel_Settings::getPdfRendererPath() . '/dompdf_config.inc.php'; and there is no dompdf_config.inc.php file in the distribution of Dompdf! Changing dompdf_config.inc.php to autoload.inc.php doesn't work!
I'm bewildered what should I do. The samples provided at PHPExcel and DOMPDF site do not provide any answers, or I'm not able to find them.