BladePDF

BladePDF is a managed PDF generation service built specifically for Laravel applications. It allows developers to convert existing Blade views into browser-quality PDF documents without installing or maintaining Chromium, Node.js, Docker containers, browser workers, or a custom rendering infrastructure.

The official Laravel package can render invoices, reports, receipts, certificates, shipping labels, tickets, account exports, and other documents directly from controllers, services, jobs, or application queues. Existing Blade components, layouts, variables, headers, footers, CSS, images, and custom fonts can be reused without moving document templates to a separate rendering system.

BladePDF automatically discovers local assets referenced by a Blade view, securely uploads them for the current render, and rewrites their URLs before the document is generated. Private images, stylesheets, and fonts therefore do not need to be exposed through a public CDN or storage bucket.

In addition to local Blade views, BladePDF supports centrally managed cloud templates that can be edited, previewed, and published without redeploying the Laravel application. Other features include hosted reusable assets, optional PDF storage, signed download URLs, asynchronous rendering, HMAC-signed webhooks, delivery retries, render history, performance metrics, and failure logs.

Each render runs inside an isolated browser context with network controls, resource limits, and timeouts. Temporary HTML, assets, and non-stored PDF files are deleted after processing.

Paid plans are based primarily on rendering concurrency rather than the number of generated documents, making BladePDF an alternative to self-hosted solutions such as Browsershot, Puppeteer, Playwright, and Chromium-based Laravel PDF packages for teams that prefer managed infrastructure.