For more information about LaraTeX please check the Readme on github https://github.com/ismaelw/laratex.

Dry Run is your way to check if everything works already without much configuration. Make sure that you have modified the config file and then you are ready.

                                    
use Ismaelw\LaraTeX\LaraTeX;

...

return (new LaraTeX)->dryRun();
                                    
                                

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You can also send data to your latex blade file and render the PDF file in that way.

                                    
use Ismaelw\LaraTeX\LaraTeX;

...

return (new LaraTeX('latex.tex'))->with([
    'Name' => 'John Doe',
    'Dob' => '01/01/1990',
    'SpecialCharacters' => '$ (a < b) $',
    'languages' => [
        'English',
        'Spanish',
        'Italian'
    ]
])->download('test.pdf');
                                    
                                

                                    

...

\begin{center}
    \item[Name :] {{ $Name }}
    \item[Date of Birth :] {{ $Dob }}
\end{center}

...

\begin{tabular}{|c|l|} 
        \hline
        \rowcolor[HTML]{E3E3E3}
        \textbf{ID} & \textbf{Language} \\
        \hline\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
        
        @foreach($languages as $key => $language)
            {{ $key }} & {{ $language }} \\ \hline
        @endforeach        
\end{tabular}

...

\begin{center}
	{!! $SpecialCharacters !!}
\end{center}

...

                                    
                                

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Since LaTeX has its own syntax it is not advised to use the standard blade syntax {{ $variable }} or {!! $variable !!}. Instead you can use @latex($variable) in your blade templates instead, which handles the suitable escaping of reserved LaTeX characters

                                    
use Ismaelw\LaraTeX\LaraTeX;

...

return (new LaraTeX('latex.tex2'))->with([
    'Name' => 'John Doe',
    'Dob' => '01/01/1990',
    'SpecialCharacters' => '$ (a < b) $',
    'languages' => [
        'English',
        'Spanish',
        'Italian'
    ]
])->download('test.pdf');
                                    
                                

                                    

...

\begin{center}
    \item[Name :] @latex($Name)
    \item[Date of Birth :] @latex($Dob)
\end{center}

...

\begin{tabular}{|c|l|} 
        \hline
        \rowcolor[HTML]{E3E3E3}
        \textbf{ID} & \textbf{Language} \\
        \hline\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
        
        @foreach($languages as $key => $language)
            @latex($key) & @latex($language) \\ \hline
        @endforeach        
\end{tabular}

...

\begin{center}
	{!! $SpecialCharacters !!}
\end{center}

...

                                    
                                

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Demo HTML String

A new builtin feature converts simple HTML strings to LaTeX strings. In this example below you can find a HTML string with the most common HTML tags.

                                    
use Ismaelw\LaraTeX\LaraTeX;

...

$HTMLString = '<h1>Heading 1</h1> <p>Text</p> <h2>Heading 2</h2> <p>Text</p> <h3>Heading 3</h3> <p>Text</p> <p>Normal text here with some <strong>strong</strong> and <strong>bold</strong> text.</p> <p>There is also text that could be <u>underlined</u>.</p> <p>Or of course we could have <em>em-wrapped</em> or <em>i-wrapped</em> text</p> <p>A special test could be a <u><em><strong>bold, underlined and italic</strong></em></u> text at the same time!</p> <p>For the mathematicians we also have calculations x<sup>2</sup> and chemical stuff H<sub>2</sub>O</p> <p>We also have lists that needs to be shown. For example an unordered and an ordered list.</p> <p>If there is alot of text we might also want to use a line break <br> to continue on the next line.</p> <ul> <li>UL Item 1 <ul> <li>UL Item 1.1</li> <li>UL Item 1.2</li> </ul> </li> <li>UL Item 2</li> <li>UL Item 3</li> </ul> <ol> <li>UL Item 1</li> <li>UL Item 2</li> <li>UL Item 3</li> </ol> <p>Last but not least. We have images.</p> <img src="/images/testimages/image1.png" /> <img src="/images/testimages/image2.png" >';

$Override = array(
array('tag' => 'img', 'extract' => 'src', 'replace' => '\begin{center}\includegraphics[scale=1]{$1}\end{center}'),
array('tag' => 'body', 'extract' => 'value', 'replace' => '$1 \newline '),
);

$LatexString = (new LaraTeX)->convertHtmlToLatex($HTMLString, $Override);
                                    
                                

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