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Create an Html with OpenTBS

I'm using tbs '3.8.0' with OpenTBS Plugin version 1.7.6 to create a docx. In the same project I have dompdf.cls.php 468

I know that I can't convert directly a docx to a pdf, so I'm trying to use OpenTBS to create a valid input for Dompdf.

Is there a way to create an html with OpenTBS, or something that I can pass as a valid input to Dompdf ?

As now my docx is created in this way:

    $TBS = new \clsTinyButStrong;
    $TBS->Plugin(TBS_INSTALL, OPENTBS_PLUGIN);
    $TBS->LoadTemplate('path'.$fileName, OPENTBS_ALREADY_UTF8);
    $TBS->Show(OPENTBS_STRING, $fileName.docx");
Solution

  • TinyButStrong is a Template Engine that works with any text template. So it fits well to merge HTML pages, and it has some facilities for that. TBS can also merge XML files for example.

    Meanwhile, OpenTBS is a plug-in for TinyButStrong that makes it merge Ms Office and LibreOffice documents. Ms Office and LibreOffice documents are technically Zip archives containing XML subfiles. Without OpenTBS, the TinyButStrong template engine cannot merge such documents.

    So if you ant to merge HTML pages in order to convert them into PDF using Dompdf, then TinyButStrong (without the OpenTBS plug-in) can do that without problem.

    See examples https://www.tinybutstrong.com/examples.php