Dompf load forever laravel 4.2 - laravel

Question

Im using dompf trying to generate a pdf and save it to the storage folder and a database, the problem is when i try to generate the pdf, it never load, when i use the sample code in github it work, it shows "test", but when i try to load a view it takes forever. this is the code i'm using
$pdf = PDF::loadView('emails.myView',$myData);
return $pdf->stream();
I have tried using the download and the save methods, but doens't work and the page load forever but the pdf is never generated.
and the view just show 4 or 6 elements with 1 main call $hist, returning the view is rendered without problems.
<style type="text/css">
Bunch of css.
</style>
<table class="center-block">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">
<img src="{{ asset('images/boletin/btn_cabeza.jpg') }}" class="img-responsive center-block">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="4" class="aside">
<a href="{{ URL::to('contacto/donaciones') }}">
<img src="{{ asset('images/boletin/btn_dona.jpg') }}" class="img-responsive center-block" >
</a>
<div class="social-container">
<h3>Siguenos en:</h3>
<hr>
<ul>
<li><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></li>
<li><i class="fa fa-instagram"></i></li>
<li><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></li>
<li><i class="fa fa-youtube-play"></i></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2 class="text-blue">Historias Epékeinas</h2>
<br>
#if(count($hist->imagenes) > 0)
<img src="{{ asset('images/news/'.$hist->imagenes->first()->image) }}" class="img-responsive img-boletin" alt="{{ $hist->titles->first()->text }}">
#endif
<div class="bg-green padding-20">
<h2 class="boletin-title">
{{ $hist->titles->first()->text }}
#if(!is_null($hist->subtitle))
{{ $hist->subtitle->titles->first()->text }}
#endif
</h2>
</div>
<hr>
<div class="text-justify">
{{ substr(strip_tags($hist->descriptions->first()->text), 0, 1600) }}[...]
<br>
Leer más
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<?php $k = 0;?>
#foreach($article as $a)
#if($k == 0 || $k%2 == 0)
<tr>
#endif
#if(!empty($principal))
#if($a->slugs->first()->text != $principal->id)
<td class="news fixedHeight bg-{{ $colors[$j] }}">
#if(count($a->imagenes) > 0)
<img src="{{ asset('images/news/'.$a->imagenes->first()->image) }}" class="img-responsive center-block img-boletin" alt="{{ $a->titles->first()->text }}">
#else
<img src="{{ asset('images/logo.png') }}" class="img-responsive center-block img-boletin" alt="{{ $a->titles->first()->text }}">
#endif
<h2 class="boletin-title">{{ $a->titles->first()->text }}</h2>
<p class="text-justify">{{ substr(strip_tags($a->descriptions->first()->text), 0, 300) }} [...]</p>
<a target="_blank" href="{{ URL::to('noticias/'.$a->slugs->first()->text) }}" class="btn btn-default btn-xs pull-right">Leer más</a>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</td>
<?php $k++; ?>
#endif
#else
<td class="news fixedHeight bg-{{ $colors[$j] }}">
#if(count($a->imagenes) > 0)
<img src="{{ asset('images/news/'.$a->imagenes->first()->image) }}" class="img-responsive center-block img-boletin" alt="{{ $a->titles->first()->text }}">
#else
<img src="{{ asset('images/logo.png') }}" class="img-responsive center-block img-boletin" alt="{{ $a->titles->first()->text }}">
#endif
<h2 class="boletin-title">{{ $a->titles->first()->text }}</h2>
<p class="text-justify">{{ substr(strip_tags($a->descriptions->first()->text), 0, 300) }} [...]</p>
<a target="_blank" href="{{ URL::to('noticias/'.$a->slugs->first()->text) }}" class="btn btn-default btn-xs pull-right">Leer más</a>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</td>
<?php $k++; ?>
#endif
<?php $j++; ?>
#if($j == 4)
<?php $j=0; ?>
#endif
#if(($k != 0 && $k%2 == 0) || $k == count($article))
</tr>
#endif
#endforeach
<tr>
<td colspan="3" class="text-center">
<h3>© Derechos Reservados Funda Epékeina 2016.</h3>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div class="container center-block">
<div class="bg-square bg-blue"></div>
<div class="bg-square bg-yellow"></div>
<div class="bg-square bg-green"></div>
<div class="bg-square bg-pink"></div>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
what could be wrong? is there any other choice for generating pdf.

Answer 1

Check those points in order:
For Laravel 4.* I suggest you to use this DOMPDF wrapper https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-dompdf/tree/0.4
Maybe your view is trying to render content out of the page, try to add dinamic page break, you can do so by styling an element with page-break-before: always; or page-break-after: always.; Try to delete the foreach and adding 1 or 2 static element rendering it in one page
Check for errors in the view by rendering it in html with return View::make('emails.myView',$myData)->render();.
Check php and html sintax, dompdf doesn't work if some html tags are
not well closed
Consider to use Knp-snappy library for Laravel https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-snappy/tree/0.1