lara-pdf-merger

Drop-in replacement for the original package from deltaaskii/lara-pdf-merger that works under PHP 8.3

Original written by http://pdfmerger.codeplex.com/team/view

This Package was tested on Laravel 13

Improvements

Code source refactoring
Enabling the Facade use
Adding duplex merge feature
Separate save operation from the merge

Installation

Require this package in your composer.json by adding those lines

composer require nimfus/lara-pdf-merger

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 options

Authors

Credits

deltaaskii deltaaskii/lara-pdf-merger
DALTCORE DALTCORE/lara-pdf-merger