Pixel-perfect HTML to PDF, without a browser on the server. The browser measures the layout; PHP only draws the PDF. No headless Chrome, runs on shared hosting.
Examples gallery →Tables, gradients, shadows, filtered images, lists, hand-drawn marks and an invoice, with the generated PDF.
Documentation →Installation, JS and PHP API, supported CSS, fonts, security, performance and dependencies.
Minimal example →The smallest possible code: one HTML page and one PHP endpoint.
Why Jh2Pdf?
- No browser on the server. A lightweight alternative to headless Chrome, Puppeteer and wkhtmltopdf: no VPS, container or binaries.
- Looks exactly like the screen. Unlike Dompdf, mPDF or TCPDF parsing HTML, it supports flexbox, grid, CSS variables, gradients and image filters, because the browser computes the layout.
- Real PDFs. Selectable, searchable text with embedded fonts, and 12 bundled open-source font families.
- Secure by design. The server never parses HTML, CSS or JavaScript: it only draws validated numbers, colors and text.
Install
composer require geisonq/jh2pdfThen copy js/jh2pdf.js to your site. Source code on GitHub · package on Packagist.