How can I generate the pdf without storing it in server.

[Ryurial]

Let the person choose to download the pdf or not. The example given is saving the generated pdf to the $output path.

[savankaneriya]

this is the way you can patch this.
$report = '/path/to/report.pdf'; if (! file_exists ($report)) { abort (404); } $filename = $this->getFileName($report_source->file).'pdf'; // if it was generated I get the contents $file = file_get_contents ($report); // delete the generated file, because we will send the content to the browser unlink ($report); // return the content to the browser that will open the PDF return Response::make($file, 200, [ 'Content-Type' => 'application/pdf', 'Content-Disposition' => 'inline; filename="'.$filename.'"' ]);