Building the Output

Now that you know how to get a service class instance and prepare the source input, you are ready to build the output.

To do this, you can call the build() method, which will return an instance of WeasyPrint\Objects\Output.

$output = $service->build();

Using the output

The $output object makes the following methods available:

stream, download and inline

use WeasyPrint\Enums\StreamMode;

public function stream(
  string $filename,
  array $headers = [],
  StreamMode $streamMode,
): StreamedResponse;

This method creates a Symfony StreamedResponse that may be used to download or inline the PDF to the client (such as a browser).

For example, in a controller:

use WeasyPrint\Facade as WeasyPrint;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\StreamedResponse;
use WeasyPrint\Enums\StreamMode;

public function __invoke(): StreamedResponse
{
  $source = '<p>WeasyPrint rocks!</p>';
  $service = WeasyPrint::prepareSource($source);
  $output = $service->build();

  return $output->stream(
    'weasyprint-rocks.pdf',
    headers: ['x-pdf' => 'weasyprint'] // just an example
    streamMode: StreamMode::INLINE
  );
}

You can also use the download and inline methods to achieve the same thing, without providing a StreamMode directly. Both of these methods use the same signature as stream, but exclude the streamMode arguments.

Examples:

return $output->inline('weasyprint-rocks.pdf');
return $output->download('weasyprint-rocks.pdf');

Implicit Inference

If you would prefer to not call build(), you can simply omit it and call the above methods directly on the service instance. For example:

WeasyPrint::prepareSource($source)->download('it-rocks.pdf')

putFile

This method forwards the data to Laravel’s Filesystem using the Storage facade’s put method, which gives you the ability to save the PDF to disk.

public function putFile(
  string $path,
  string|null $disk = null,
  array $options = []
): bool;

getData

This method returns the raw PDF data as a string.

public function getData(): string;