Hello there,
I upgraded from html2pdf 4.0.3 to latest 5.* some days ago. On a Debian standard server (php 5.6...), in order to prepare the Debian upgrade (from Jessie to Stretch, I'm a bit late). I think I read somewhere that I had to upgrade html2pdf to 5 to get it running on php 7. In any case, it surely is a good thing to upgrade this tool along with the distro.
I encountered a big performance problem I didn't have before.
Mainly, my PDF is a [sometimes] big table (many rows, a few columns) with basic stuff in it (amount, date, reference...)
With html2pdf 5, I need 1.5-2 seconds to generate that table (1 page) for only ~70 lines. Time increases exponentially with the number of lines (the server is a big one with, no performance problem, tuning/monitoring it myself blah blah blah).
- Approx. 40 seconds for 194 lines.
- Timeout after 10 minutes for ~1000 lines.
Before that, for approx. 3000 lines, I needed a few seconds (maybe 5 or 10, I don't remember, but it was reasonnable).
I started to debug this and reduced a copy of my code to just this table with no PHP/mysql processing, I just copied/pasted my table content. I activated setDebugMode to check.
Maybe I missed something simple (or my html code is dirty?), but I can't find why. I tried to remove every style attribute, it's a bit faster, but still slow and exponentially slower.
If anyone has any idea, I'd appreciate.
Here you can find an example with only this table content (+ a footer) with the style attributes (I put it on all TD which is maybe a bad idea. And the same without any style nowhere.
You can copy/paste some TR/TD some generate hundreds of lines and check the processing time.
examples.zip
Regards,
Jacques M.
Hello there,
I upgraded from html2pdf 4.0.3 to latest 5.* some days ago. On a Debian standard server (php 5.6...), in order to prepare the Debian upgrade (from Jessie to Stretch, I'm a bit late). I think I read somewhere that I had to upgrade html2pdf to 5 to get it running on php 7. In any case, it surely is a good thing to upgrade this tool along with the distro.
I encountered a big performance problem I didn't have before.
Mainly, my PDF is a [sometimes] big table (many rows, a few columns) with basic stuff in it (amount, date, reference...)
With html2pdf 5, I need 1.5-2 seconds to generate that table (1 page) for only ~70 lines. Time increases exponentially with the number of lines (the server is a big one with, no performance problem, tuning/monitoring it myself blah blah blah).
Before that, for approx. 3000 lines, I needed a few seconds (maybe 5 or 10, I don't remember, but it was reasonnable).
I started to debug this and reduced a copy of my code to just this table with no PHP/mysql processing, I just copied/pasted my table content. I activated setDebugMode to check.
Maybe I missed something simple (or my html code is dirty?), but I can't find why. I tried to remove every style attribute, it's a bit faster, but still slow and exponentially slower.
If anyone has any idea, I'd appreciate.
Here you can find an example with only this table content (+ a footer) with the style attributes (I put it on all TD which is maybe a bad idea. And the same without any style nowhere.
You can copy/paste some TR/TD some generate hundreds of lines and check the processing time.
examples.zip
Regards,
Jacques M.