Laravel PDF Merger based TCPDF

A simple Laravel service provider with some basic configuration for including the TCPDF library to allow you to merge PDF's in your Laravel application.

Compatibility from 1.3 to 1.7 versions, if attempt to merge version greater than 1.4 it convert through Ghosthscript.

The final result is a merged pdf file v 1.7

Requirements

PHP 8.0+
Ghostscript (gs command on Linux)

Installation

The Laravel PDF Merger service provider can be installed via composer by requiring the softplaceweb/laravel-10-pdf-merger package in your project's composer.json.

composer require softplaceweb/laravel-10-pdf-merger

for lumen, you should add the following lines:

$app->register(Softplaceweb\PdfMerger\PdfMergerServiceProvider::class);
class_alias(Softplaceweb\PdfMerger\Facades\TCPDF::class, 'PDF');

That's it! You're good to go.

Here is a little example:

use Softplaceweb\PdfMerger\Facades\PdfMerger;

PdfMerger::addPDF('path/to/pdf1.pdf', 1)
->addPDF('path/to/pdf2.pdf', 'all')
->merge()
->save('new_file_name.pdf', 'browser');

or sending pdf's as array ...

use Softplaceweb\PdfMerger\Facades\PdfMerger;

PdfMerger::addPDF([
    [
        'filePath' => 'path/to/pdf1.pdf',
        'pages'    => 1,
    ],
    [
        'filePath' => 'path/to/pdf2.pdf',
    ],
])
->merge()
->save('new_file_name.pdf', 'browser');

You can extend functionality for this class and for a list of all available function take a look at the TCPDF Documentation

Configuration

Laravel Pdf Merger comes with some basic configuration. If you want to override the defaults, you can publish the config, like so:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Softplaceweb\PdfMerger\PdfMergerServiceProvider"

Now access config/pdf-merger.php to customize.

use_original_header is to used the original Header() from TCPDF.
- Please note that PdfMerger::setHeaderCallback(function($pdf){}) overrides this settings.
use_original_footer is to used the original Footer() from TCPDF.
- Please note that PdfMerger::setFooterCallback(function($pdf){}) overrides this settings.

Laravel PDF Merger based TCPDF

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Installation

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