->pdf(); nothing happens?

[yankeyhotel]

I am having trouble creating and then immediately downloading a PDF.

My expectation is that this would result in the pdf downloading from the browser, but nothing happens. (https://github.com/spatie/browsershot#output-directly-to-the-browser-1)

Browsershot::html('<h1>Hello</h1>')
    ->setNodeBinary('/usr/local/bin/node')
    ->setNpmBinary('/usr/local/bin/npm')
    ->format('Letter')
    ->pdf();

This code works just fine, the example.pdf is created and added to the root.

Browsershot::html('<h1>Hello</h1>')
    ->setNodeBinary('/usr/local/bin/node')
    ->setNpmBinary('/usr/local/bin/npm')
    ->format('Letter')
    ->save('example.pdf');

->screenshot() doesn't work either. (https://github.com/spatie/browsershot#output-directly-to-the-browser)

Thanks

[stefanzweifel]

pdf() returns the PDF as a string (Source).

If the PDF should be downloaded from a controller, you have to transform it into the appropriate response:

$pdf = Browsershot::html('<h1>Hello</h1>')
    ->setNodeBinary('/usr/local/bin/node')
    ->setNpmBinary('/usr/local/bin/npm')
    ->format('Letter')
    ->pdf();

return \Response::make($pdf, 200, ['Content-Type' => 'application/pdf']);