I was implementing PDF generation in one of projects which is built with CodeIgniter. I searched for PDF support for CodeIgniter and found issue. I was happy, but the problem was with the PDFLib. Its not free and our client would not buy it. I thought that DOMPDF will not work without the help of PDFLib. Soon I loss my happiness and started looking for an alternate solution. Then our team decided to use HTML2FPDF. But the result was not satisfactory. We had to rewrite our html files. It was lacking lots of HTML support. I was not happy with the output. So I started googling again for a PDF library. While searching I came accross a library called HTML2PS/HTML2PDF. But, it seemed to me complex. I again started searching for any solution which will help me use DOMPDF in my project without PDFLib. At last I got the solution from DOMPDF site .