Example of Background Images and Rounded Corners in PDF

Background Images and Rounded Corners

The plugin ships with a number of PDF templates showing off the features of mPDF. These can be found in your PDF_EXTENDED_TEMPLATES directory.

Overview

To easily switch between custom PDF templates change the template query string parameter to the template name when viewing a PDF via your admin area.

Template Name: example-backgrounds-and-borders02.phpExample URL: https://test.com/?gf_pdf=1&fid=3&lid=40&template=example-backgrounds-and-borders02.php

mPDF has great support for background colour, images and even gradients. Along with this, it supports border-radius so you can easily add rounded corners to your PDFs.

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Defining Gradients

mPDF follows the CSS3 specification for defining gradients. You can set the gradient using background: linear-gradient() and background: radial-gradient().Example:

/* start linear gradient from the bottom and render upwards – blue at bottom and white at the top */
background: linear-gradient(bottom, #0b91c2, #FFFFFF);

/* start linear gradient from the top and render downwards. #e1e1e1 will cover 65% of the area. */
background: linear-gradient(top, #e1e1e1 65%, #c7c7c7);

/* run a linear gradient at 45 degrees to the element. */
background: linear-gradient(45deg, blue, yellow);

/* Using three colours in the gradient and controlling the percentage they cover. */
background: linear-gradient(top, blue, yellow %75, red %10);

/*create a radial gradient with the circle in the centre */
background: radial-gradient(center circle, red, green);

/*create a radial gradient with the circle in the top left */
background: radial-gradient(center circle, red, green);

/* have the circle in the bottom left corner using three colours */
background: radial-gradient(farthest-side at left bottom, red, yellow 50px, green);

Background colour is the only property that can be set on inline elements. Background image and gradient can be set on block elements, @page and the body tag.

background-images support JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF and SVG images.

You can view the W3 specification which details the usage of these CSS statements.

• CSS3 linear gradients - https://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#linear-gradients
• CSS3 radial gradients - https://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-images/#radial-gradients

Rounded Corners

mPDF also supports the CSS3-spec border-radius property. You can use the default border-radius syntax to define all corners:border-radius: 4em;

Or set an individual radius on each corner:

border-top-left-radius:     4em;
border-top-right-radius:    4em;
border-bottom-right-radius: 4em;
border-bottom-left-radius:  4em;

View the mPDF documentation for more details about background images/gradients and border radius.