This Latex PDF View class provides an easy way to generate PDF files from symfony templates. Installing Until Ticket #388 is resolved, you have to copy sfPDFView.class.php into sfConfig::get('sf_symfony_lib_dir').'/view/ Example apps/xxx/modules/pdf/config/module.yml: all: view_class: sfPDF this template writes out a nicely formatted letter: <?php use_helper('Latex') ?> \documentclass[fontsize=11p