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hamza-rico/laravel-pingen-letter
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Turn any PDF into a Pingen-ready A4 letter (generated address cover page + A4 normalisation + safe margins) and send it through the Pingen print & mail API. Laravel-first.

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Laravel Pingen Letter
=====================

[](#laravel-pingen-letter)

Turn **any PDF into a Pingen-ready A4 letter** and send it through the [Pingen](https://www.pingen.com) print & mail API — with a generated address cover page, automatic A4 normalisation, and safe print margins.

Pingen reads the recipient address off the **first page** of the PDF (the window-envelope zone) and rejects non-A4 pages or content in the protected border/postage areas. This package handles all of that for you:

1. Draws an **address cover page** (recipient in the window zone).
2. **Merges** cover + your documents into one file (via a pluggable driver).
3. **Re-lays** every page to A4 with safe margins — Letter, legal, or compressed source PDFs all come out clean.

Then it uploads, creates and sends the letter via Pingen.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.2+
- Laravel 10, 11 or 12
- A [Pingen](https://www.pingen.com) account + a Developer-App (OAuth2 `client_credentials`)
- A PDF merge driver — one of:
    - **ConvertAPI** (recommended, no server binary) — `composer require convertapi/convertapi-php`
    - **Ghostscript** (`gs` installed on the server)
    - **FPDI** (pure PHP, only for simple/uncompressed inputs)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require hamza-rico/laravel-pingen-letter
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=pingen-letter-config
```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Add to your `.env`:

```
PINGEN_STAGING=true
PINGEN_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id
PINGEN_CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secret
PINGEN_ORGANISATION_ID=your-organisation-uuid

# merge driver: convertapi | ghostscript | fpdi
PINGEN_MERGER=convertapi
CONVERTAPI_SECRET=your-convertapi-secret
# or, for ghostscript:
# PINGEN_MERGER=ghostscript
# PINGEN_GS_BIN=/usr/bin/gs
```

> Pingen offers a **free staging environment** that mails nothing — keep `PINGEN_STAGING=true` until you're ready to go live.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use HamzaRico\PingenLetter\Facades\PingenLetter;
use HamzaRico\PingenLetter\DTO\Recipient;
use HamzaRico\PingenLetter\Enums\DeliveryProduct;

$letter = PingenLetter::to(new Recipient(
        name:    'Jane Doe',
        street:  'Musterstrasse 12',
        zip:     '10115',
        city:    'Berlin',
        country: 'DE',
    ))
    ->documents([
        'https://example.com/translation.pdf',
        storage_path('app/certificate.pdf'),
    ])
    ->deliveryProduct(DeliveryProduct::Cheap)
    ->color()
    ->duplex()
    ->send();

// ['id' => '…', 'url' => 'https://app.pingen.com/…', 'status' => 'sent', 'pages' => 3]
```

### Just build the print-ready PDF (no sending)

[](#just-build-the-print-ready-pdf-no-sending)

```
$pdf = PingenLetter::to($recipient)
    ->documents([$path])
    ->build(); // ['path' => '/tmp/…​.pdf', 'pages' => 2]
```

### Low-level API access

[](#low-level-api-access)

```
$client = PingenLetter::client();
$client->getLetter($id);       // status + tracking
$client->cancelLetter($id);    // cancel (only while submitted / print preparation)
$client->calculatePrice([...]); // price for a country + options
```

Page limits
-----------

[](#page-limits)

Pingen enforces per-country page limits — tightest are **Netherlands (14)** and **India (16)**; most others allow 120–500. Check the page count from `build()`before sending if you mail to those countries.

Delivery products
-----------------

[](#delivery-products)

`cheap` (default), `fast`, `bulk`, `premium`, `registered`. Pingen maps these to each destination country's real postal product. Only `registered` provides a carrier tracking number; standard letters give status updates only.

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit
```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT.

###  Health Score

38

—

LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance90

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

46d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/97a181c4807f860865c27cb3aae9a59e690811813b771da7253572254da5dcb3?d=identicon)[hamza-rico](/maintainers/hamza-rico)

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Top Contributors

[![hamza-rico](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/98967561?v=4)](https://github.com/hamza-rico "hamza-rico (1 commits)")

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Tags

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