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glass path Jul 23, 2025, 3:18 PM

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I'm facing an issue with PDF concatenation in my Laravel API. I'm using mPDF to merge a system-generated PDF with a user-uploaded PDF, but when users upload PDFs with version higher than 1.4, I get this error:

"This PDF document probably uses a compression technique which is not supported by the free parser shipped with FPDI."

What are the best approaches to handle this in Laravel?

Has anyone dealt with this before?

wide grotto Jul 23, 2025, 7:59 PM

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glass path I'm facing an issue with PDF concatenation in my Laravel API. I'm using mPDF to ...

Try a different driver like tcpdi

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Also I never new mpdf can merge directly, I always used another package for that

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Try this one as it comes with the other driver I mentioned https://github.com/hanneskod/libmergepdf

GitHub

GitHub - hanneskod/libmergepdf: PHP library for merging multiple PDFs

PHP library for merging multiple PDFs. Contribute to hanneskod/libmergepdf development by creating an account on GitHub.

digital turret Jul 24, 2025, 3:31 AM

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I got fed up mucking around with pdf tools via command shell etc and ended up just spinning up a Gotenberg instance for pdf manipulation. Worth looking at, it’s been reliable so far.

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HTTPS://gotenberg.dev

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