{"id":4003,"date":"2019-05-23T18:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T18:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codexworld.com\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:02:26","slug":"create-pdf-with-watermark-in-php-using-dompdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codexworld.com\/create-pdf-with-watermark-in-php-using-dompdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Create PDF with Watermark in PHP using Dompdf"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dynamic PDF<\/b> generation is useful when you want to allow the user to download the text or HTML content in a file on the web application. In this case, the HTML content needs to be converted to a PDF file before downloading. You can easily convert HTML to PDF in PHP<\/a> with Dompdf. Dompdf is the easiest way to create PDF documents with dynamic data using PHP. Dompdf library helps to create a PDF file and add the HTML content to PDF using PHP.<\/p>\n

Dompdf provides various configuration options to enhance the PDF creation functionality and customize the PDF document. Add Watermark to PDF is a very useful feature to protect the copyright of the PDF document. In this tutorial, we will show you how to convert HTML to PDF<\/b> and add watermark to PDF<\/b> with Dompdf using PHP.<\/p>\n

A watermark is an image or text that can appear either front or behind the content of the PDF document. In the example code, we will show both methods to add text and image watermark to PDF document with Dompdf in PHP.<\/p>\n

Download and Install Dompdf<\/h2>\n

1.<\/b> First, download stable release<\/a> of dompdf library, extract the Dompdf package and place it in the directory of your application.<\/p>\n

Note that:<\/span> You don’t need to download the Dompdf library separately, all the required files are included in the source code.<\/p>\n

2.<\/b> Include autoloader to load dompdf library and helper functions in the PHP script.<\/p>\n

\/\/ Include autoloader 
<\/span>require_once <\/span>'dompdf\/autoload.inc.php'<\/span>;<\/span><\/pre>\n
Add Watermark to PDF (text)<\/h2>\n
The following example code generates PDF and add watermark text to PDF<\/b> file with Dompdf library using PHP.<\/p>\n