--- title: Building a PDF Invoice Generator with Laravel and... description: PDF invoices in Laravel can be generated using Browsershot, which renders a Blade view in headless Chrome and prints it to PDF, avoiding the restricted... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-pdf-invoice-generator-with-laravel-and-browsershot-7hqlxudze twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a PDF Invoice Generator with Laravel and Browsershot | daily.dev og:description: PDF invoices in Laravel can be generated using Browsershot, which renders a Blade view in headless Chrome and prints it to PDF, avoiding the restricted... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-pdf-invoice-generator-with-laravel-and-browsershot-7hqlxudze og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7hqlxUDZe.png og:image:alt: Building a PDF Invoice Generator with Laravel and Browsershot og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a PDF Invoice Generator with Laravel and Browsershot **[PHP Architect](https://daily.dev/sources/phparchitect)** · [@shocm](https://daily.dev/shocm) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PDF invoices in Laravel can be generated using Browsershot, which renders a Blade view in headless Chrome and prints it to PDF, avoiding the restricted HTML/CSS dialects and page-break quirks common to traditional PHP PDF libraries. Since the output matches whatever renders correctly in a browser, developers can use modern CSS features like flexbox and web fonts directly in their invoice templates. ## Content Most PHP PDF libraries make you write your layout in a restricted dialect of HTML that doesn't support modern CSS: no flexbox, patchy support for web fonts, and surprises with page breaks. Browsershot sidesteps all of that by rendering your Blade view in headless Chrome and printing the result to PDF — meaning if it looks right in a browser, it looks right in the PDF. https://laravelmagazine.com/building-a-pdf-invoice-generator-with-laravel-and-browsershot ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How to Build a Simple PDF Invoice Generator with PHP](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-a-simple-pdf-invoice-generator-with-php-ogjkch3ct) · SitePoint · 1 upvotes · 4 comments - [Capture Web Page Screenshots in Laravel with Spatie's Laravel Screenshot](https://daily.dev/posts/capture-web-page-screenshots-in-laravel-with-spatie-s-laravel-screenshot-abeik0rqj) · Laravel News · 26 upvotes · 1 comments - [How to Convert HTML to PDF in C\# \(.NET 10 Guide\)](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-convert-html-to-pdf-in-c-net-10-guide--zhyfillpr) · Code with Mukesh · 20 upvotes · 2 comments --- Tags: [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php), [#laravel](https://daily.dev/tags/laravel) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-pdf-invoice-generator-with-laravel-and-browsershot-7hqlxudze) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-pdf-invoice-generator-with-laravel-and-browsershot-7hqlxudze","headline":"Building a PDF Invoice Generator with Laravel and Browsershot","text":"PDF invoices in Laravel can be generated using Browsershot, which renders a Blade view in headless Chrome and prints it to PDF, avoiding the restricted HTML/CSS dialects and page-break quirks common to traditional PHP PDF libraries. 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