How to export html blade to pdf?

[raven rose]

I'm having issues exporting blade to pdf

[balmy mural]

So.. what are those issues exactly? Can't really help you if you don't provide any information

[raven rose]

I have this invoice page in laravel blade that I want to export to pdf. But I've tried several libraries and it didn't work. I've tried domPDF, snappy, and html2pdf.js

[balmy mural]

Why didn't those work? Since those are packages intended to solve the problem you're facing; generating PDFs

[dusky swan]

Most of these types of packages require some PHP extensions to be enabled. Have you got them installed and enabled?

PHP version 7.1 or higher
DOM extension
MBString extension
php-font-lib
php-svg-lib

[raven rose]

It just returns a raw pdf content instead of download the pdf file

[raven rose]

How do I check these extension and lib if its installed and enabled or not?

[dusky swan]

php -m

In your terminal

Can you please send the code you're running to do this?

[raven rose]

Well its basically just this

        return $pdf->download('invoice.pdf');```

I'm using domPDF

[dusky swan]

Try it without ->output()

[raven rose]

Its still the same just return raw pdf like this and didn't download pdf

[raven rose]

Is it possible because I have old version laravel. My laravel is 5.8

[balmy mural]

My laravel is 5.8
You should probably focus on other things then, that version is 5 years old and hasn't received any security updates for 4 years. It also means you're likely using PHP 7.3 (or older), which ended support like 2.5 years ago and doesn't get security updates either

[raven rose]

Any idea what could possibly cause this issue? I couldn't find any error logs but it just returns raw pdf content