Dompdf

HTML to PDF converter for PHP observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/dompdf/dompdf · homepage · PHP · LGPL-2.1 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

95/100

Activity 95
Release rhythm 93
Longevity 100

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: 23.5
age_days: 5042
days_rel: 44
days_push: 31
n_releases_24m: 9

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

11177 stars · 1838 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter implemented as a PHP library, functioning as a mostly CSS 2.1-compliant HTML layout and rendering engine. It renders HTML documents with stylesheets, images, tables, and basic SVG into PDF files without requiring external PDF libraries.

Use cases

generate pdf invoices from html templates in php
convert html reports to pdf documents
render styled html with css into downloadable pdfs
create pdf documents server-side with php
generate pdf receipts from web application data
embed custom fonts in generated pdf files

When to choose

you need to generate PDFs from HTML/CSS in a PHP application
you want a pure-PHP solution with no external PDF binary dependencies
your documents use CSS 2.1 layout, tables, and images
you need Unicode support via embedded TrueType fonts

When to avoid

you need pixel-perfect rendering of modern CSS3 or JavaScript-driven pages
your HTML input is poorly formed, since dompdf is not tolerant of invalid markup
you need very high performance or low memory usage for large documents
you are not working in PHP

Facets

library · maturity stable

pdf templating parser pdf web-development backend php cross-platform html-to-pdf css-rendering pdf-generation php-library web-server

2 sources

readme: https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0738a4ef19f7
homepage: https://dompdf.github.io/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c85873b6ea47

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
dompdf/dompdf	main	95
dompdf/php-font-lib	backend	60
dompdf/php-svg-lib	backend	69

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="dompdf/dompdf")

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