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See what I have experienced so far. May be useful for you too.

1. No need to install, can be called directly.But be sure php-xml package is installed. You can be sure from phpinfo().


2. When using, change the path in dompdf_config.inc if necessary


3. Be sure that the html code is clean i.e. tags are closed


4. Dom PDF can not render multiple html pages with a single table. I was facing of getting a single page while original was more than one

To be continued....

I was having some troubles with PDF report generation. I used Smarty Templates, so I was looking for PDF class that will support Smarty output.

Finally I stayed on Dom PDF. It supports PHP 5 and CSS 2.1.

//include the dom pdf
require('dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php');

//fetch the HTML output from smarty template
$htmlcontent=$smarty->fetch('smarty_template.tpl');

//call dom pdf class
$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf->load_html($htmlcontent);
$dompdf->render();
//display output in browser
$dompdf->stream();
//or, save as a pdf
$pdf = $dompdf->output();
file_put_contents("tmp/filename.pdf", $pdf);

There are other options like set paper size etc. You can try this.