DompdfRendererBundle

A Kimai plugin to use Dompdf as PDF renderer (in place of MPdf)

Requirements

• Requires Kamai 2

Features

• PDFs created by dompdf
• Much smaller PDFs
• Improved support for CSS 2.1 in templates

Status

The bundle is in early stages, but appears to be working well. Not yet tested on release versions of Kimai.

Issues

Page numbering in templates needs to be positioned manually, with x and y co-ordinates, in an inline php script, due to how Dompdf counts the total number of pages. See the script at the bottom of the provided default template

Installation

First unzip the plugin into to your Kimai plugins directory:

unzip DompdfRendererBundle-x.x.zip -d <kimai path>/var/plugins/

And then reload Kimai:

bin/console kimai:reload

DompdfRendererBundle has one dependency (i.e. dompdf), which I thought should be installed automatically with the above command, but for some reason dompdf wasn't installing automatically for me. So, while in the top level folder, run the following command to install dompdf:

composer require dompdf/dompdf

The plugin should appear, and will now be used as the PDF renderer instead of MPdf.

To disable the dompdf backend, either:-

• Edit Resources/config/dompdf_config.yaml, changing the renderer value to mpdf (or anything other than dompdf)
• Set the environment variable KIMAI_PDF_RENDERER to something (anything other than dompdf).

Then, reload Kimai again:

bin/console kimai:reload

Templates

New twig templates can be added to /Resources/invoices. An example is provided, based on Kimai's default template.