Quick start

From download to your first PDF

Three steps and about five minutes. Pick the package that matches your stack and the install line and first program appear below — both exactly as they ship in the download.

Choose your stack

Choose a different stack

1. Install PHP

shell

composer require lumaspdf/lumaspdf
# or: unzip php.zip and require LumasPdf.php

2. Write a PDF

The smallest complete program: create the document, write to it, close it.

php

<?php
require 'LumasPdfOO.php';

$pdf = new LumasPdfOO();
$pdf->CreatePDF('hello.pdf');
$pdf->Append();
$pdf->SetFont('Helvetica', 0, 24.0, true, 0);
$pdf->WriteFText(0, 'Hello from LumasPDF');
$pdf->EndPage();
$pdf->CloseFile();

3. Remove the watermark when you are ready

Everything above works with no key at all. Output carries an evaluation watermark until a key is applied — nothing else is limited, and there is no time limit on trying it.

Download & request a trial key Full package page

Before you deploy this one

This package

PHP

A pure-PHP binding over FFI: no compiled extension to match.

Licence covers

win-x64 linux-x86 linux-x64 linux-arm32 linux-arm64 macos

Requirements

bin/win-x64
bin/linux-x64
bin/linux-x86
bin/linux-arm64
bin/linux-arm32
bin/osx
15
LumasPdf.php
LumasPdfOO.php
LumasRpt.php
lumaspdf_preload.php
composer.json
docs/php_guide.md
examples/run_all.php

If the first program does not run

Almost every first-run problem is the same one: the process cannot find the engine library, or it found one built for the other bitness. The package page for your stack lists what has to sit where, and the knowledge base has the platform-specific version of that answer.

Knowledge base Documentation Known issues