PDF take a long time to make with logo image

Hi,

I just found the function get_company_logo_html() in the file abstract-bewpi-invoice.php.

There is this note : * Convert image to base64 due to incompatibility of subdomains with MPDF

The url of the logo image is like https://subdomain.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/logo-company.jpg

I understand that MPDF obliges to encode the image in base64. Does it why it’s so slow ?

Thanks for your help

Bastien

Hi,

I find a solution. The problem is that mpdf don’t like domain in the image path. It works pretty quickly if it’s relative path.

In the function get_company_logo_html(), just remove the domain and http stuff and add ../ as the current path is wp-admin.

Basically you have a path image like :

• https://subdomain.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/YYYY/MM/thefile.jpg

It works great by removing https://subdomain.domain.com and adding ..

• ../wp-content/uploads/YYYY/MM/thefile.jpg

I did it directly in the abstract file. I don’t know how to change better.

Is it possible to modify in a future update the logo image path you save when adding the file in order to have the relative path and not the absolute used in this function ?

Thanks

Bastien

Hi Bastien,
I don’t really now why it’s that slow with a subdomain. Maybe it’s because of the ssl?
You could try to add the following code to the get_company_logo_html() function.

// get relative path
$image_url = '..' . str_replace( get_site_url(), '', $image_url );

With this code you won’t need to base64 the image anymore so remove beyond code.

if( ini_get( 'allow_url_fopen' ) ) {
		            $image_url = image_to_base64( $image_url );
	            }

Let me know if it works. ??

Thx for the quick reply. As I told in another post, your plugin is great and do the job for pdf invoices.

The problem is that I need a more complete plugin which manages credit notes too. So, I have to use another one.

But thx for your work ??

Many thanks for your review!
You do know that this plugin supports refunds? You can just regenerate the invoice and send it to the customer once more. What would you like to manage/achieve? Please let me know so I can improve this plugin if necessary. Your feedback is very valueable to me. ??

Hi Bas,

I saw that I manage refund but the way it does it does not correspond to the legal french way.

In your case, you delete the old invoice and generate a new one with the refund. The problem is that in my case, I can have products with different tax rates. So if I just tell Woocommerce to do a refund of 100$, I will not tell me on which product to apply, so the TVA refunded will not be ok.

To do that, I have found a plugin which allow to “modify” the order. Not exactly modify, but allow for each products of the orders to tell which one and in which quantity have to be refunded. So, the VAT corresponding to these products and with the good rates and so the good amounts are updated.

Moreover, in France, you have to keep all created invoices. So, in this case, you have to keep the old one and to generate a new one with the refund informations. It’s not an invoice but a credit note.

Your plugin is really cool ?? I think you are in the good way to make a complete plugin, but I know it’s a lot of work.

Many thanks for your briefly description. I’m very busy at the moment, but this will definitely be a feature for the near future!

Hi Bas,

I am really happy to help you. It’s nothing compared to the time you spend to offer to the community your good plugin.

Thanks! Means a lot! Are you a developer yourself?

Not a full time developer. I do when my clients need. I don’t have the time for the moment to develop some WP plugins. That’s why I thank guys like you.

Do you have a website wich I can take a look at? ??