As I had to build a simple html to pdf converting for a client using php, I found a beautiful library called DOMPDF written by Benj Carson.
It seemed to be very lightweight and uncomplicated, which turned out to be true. In a standard case it really is as simple as
$pdf->load_html($html);
I am going to talk about the basic usage and problems I had to solve, specially with umlauts / non latin characters.
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