A Phoca toolkit for generating PDF documents in Joomla: a component, UTF-8 fonts and plugins, with headers, footers, fonts and page format set in the options.
Phoca PDF by Jan Pavelka brings PDF document generation from site content to Joomla. It is a set made of a component, a font pack and plugins, with PDF output built on the TCPDF library. It is useful for sites with manuals, price lists or articles that visitors want to save or print.
Features
- A component for document settings: page format, fonts and line height.
- Separate fonts for the main content, the header and the footer.
- Support for UTF-8 fonts.
- Headers and footers written in a WYSIWYG HTML editor.
- Plugins that connect PDF creation to content.
Things to keep in mind
- Not every HTML tag or attribute produced by an editor is supported in PDF, and the source markup must be valid.
- Embedding several fonts noticeably increases the file size.
- A blank page instead of a PDF usually means the site prints PHP errors or badly encoded characters before the document starts.
Compatibility
- Joomla 4, 5 and 6; the developer states readiness for Joomla 5 and 6.
- JED lists versions for different Joomla branches, the newest being 5.2.1. Last updated on 21 October 2025.
