New usage in this version. Maybe you like it.

.gitignore

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+vendor/
+tmp/

README.md

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 # PDF View
 
-Extension for Kohana's View class that renders as a PDF instead of HTML. Uses [MPDF](http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/) to render normal HTML views as PDF Files.
+Extension for Kohana a PDF instead of HTML. Uses [MPDF](http://www.mpdf1.com/mpdf/) to render normal HTML views as PDF Files.
+
+Forked to fix for use View rendered templates with Kohana Smarty module.
+Now improoved with new features, like reading from string, merging PDF, etc.
+
+mPDF version 5.7.1a !
 
 ## Installation
 
-If your application is a Git repository:
+Use Composer!
+
+To install from packagist [link](https://packagist.org/packages/seyfer/kohana-mpdf):
+
+```
+"seyfer/kohana-mpdf": "dev-master"
+```
 
-    git submodule add git://github.com/ener/mpdf.git modules/mpdf
-    git submodule update --init
+To install from Git:
 
-Or clone the the module separately:
+    {
+        "type": "package",
+        "package": {
+            "name": "kohana/modules/mpdf",
+            "version": "3.3",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/seyfer/kohana-mpdf.git",
+                "reference": "3.3/master"
+            }
+        }
+    }
 
-    cd modules
-    git clone git://github.com/ener/mpdf.git mpdf
+After installation go to module folder and execute
 
-### Update DOMPDF
+    composer install
 
-    cd modules/mpdf
-    git submodule update --init
+This will load mPDF to vendor dir. After that add to your app `index.php` at the beginning
+
+```
+require vendor/autoload.php
+```
 
 ### Configuration
 
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 Placed in a controller action:
 
     // Load a view using the PDF extension
-    $pdf = View_MPDF::factory('pdf/example');
-
-    // Use the PDF as the request response
-    $this->request->response = $pdf;
+    $mpdf = Kohana_MPDF::factory('pdf/example');
+    //Or use it with some data and with Smarty
+    $mpdf = Kohana_MPDF::factory("pdf/example.tpl", array("data" => $data));
+
+    //Set data for wiew later
+    $mpdf->setData($data);
+    //Or directly to PDF
+    $mpdf->setDataToPdf($data);
+
+    // Use CSS
+    $mpdf->setCss('media/css/style.css');
+    // And again. This is array.
+    $mpdf->setCss('media/css/style2.css');
+    //Or set array of CSS path directly to PDF
+    $mpdf->setCssToPdf($array);
+
+    //Render pdf with your html template and css
+    $mpdf->render();
+
+    //Check output with different output mode (see MPDF documentation).
+    $mpdf->output('mpdf.pdf', 'S');
+
+Extended usage
+
+    //You can set some options
+    $mpdf->setCharset($charset);
+    $mpdf->setSourceFile($filePath);
+    $mpdf->setImportUse();
+    $mpdf->setFormat('A4');
+
+    //Save to tmp path
+    $mpdf->saveTpmPdfFile($data, $name);
+    //You can load PDF file in one command from tmp path
+    $mpdf->loadPdfFile($fileName);
+
+    //And finally! Parse PDF from string, not file
+    $mpdf->parsePdfString($pdfBinData);
+
+    //Merge different PDF to one
+    $mpdf = new Kohana_MPDF();
+    $mpdf->mergePdf(1.pdf);
+    $mpdf->mergePdf(2.pdf);
+    $mpdf->output();
 
+You can call any mPDF methods.
 
+For all mPDF methods see http://www.mpdf1.com/ documentation.