TCPDF

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TCPDF
Original author(s) Nicola Asuni
Initial releaseJanuary 6, 2005 (2005-01-06)
Stable release
6.10.0 [1] / 27 May 2025;52 days ago (27 May 2025)
Repository
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Software Library
License LGPLv3
Website tcpdf.org

TCPDF is a free and open source software PHP class for generating PDF documents. TCPDF is the only PHP-based library that includes complete support for UTF-8 Unicode and right-to-left languages, including the bidirectional algorithm. [2]

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In 2009, TCPDF was one of the most active of over 200,000 projects hosted on SourceForge (best ranked 6th on 3 April 2010). [3]

TCPDF is also one of the most used PHP libraries in the world, due to it being already included in the most popular PHP-based CMS and applications, including: Joomla! 1.5, Drupal, [4] Moodle, [5] phpMyAdmin, [6] Xoops, [7] ImpressCMS, [8] Jelix, [9] SugarCRM, [10] Symfony, [11] TYPO3, [12] [13] Vtiger CRM, [14] Yii Framework, [15] CMS Made Simple, [16] DaDaBIK, [17] and many others.

Html2Pdf PHP script by Laurent Minguet is based on TCPDF v5.0.002. This library allows generating PDF documents specified via a subset of html without learning underlying TCPDF api.

The TCPDF class was originally derived in 2002 from the public domain FPDF class written by Olivier Plathey but now has been almost entirely rewritten and hundreds of new features added. [2]

Features

References

  1. "Release 6.10.0". 27 May 2025. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 TCPDF official website
  3. "SourceForge.net Update: 2009-03-31 Edition - Statistics and Top Projects". Archived from the original on 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  4. "Drupal Pdfview module recommends TCPDF as a third-party tool to use". Archived from the original on 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  5. "Moodle Index of /moodle/lib/tcpdf". Archived from the original on 2008-05-31.
  6. "phpMyAdmin docs for TCPDF".
  7. "A module for creating articles in Xoops".
  8. "ImpressCMS 1.1 New Features". Archived from the original on 2009-09-05.
  9. "JELIX changelog".
  10. "TCPDF module for SugarCRM". Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  11. "TCPDF plugin for symfony". Archived from the original on 2010-04-27. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  12. "TCPDF module for TYPO3". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23.
  13. t3monster (7 October 2024). "TYPO3 Agentur".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. "TCPDF module on vtiger".
  15. "TCPDF extension for Yii".
  16. "Announcing CMS Made Simple 1.4 "Jamaica" with TCPDF". Archived from the original on 2009-04-22.
  17. "PDF print feature is available, DaDaBIK's blog post".