Use template on first page

[ericlaaper]

Hi Carlos,

I want to use a template for creating PDF's. I can get this working for second and later pages.

            $pdf = PDF::loadView('pdf.reportScan.test', $valueArray);
            $instance = $pdf->getMpdf(); // get instance
            $instance->SetDocTemplate(storage_path('template/sjabloon.pdf'), true);

            $instance->AddPage(); // add new page with landscape orientation
            $instance->WriteHTML(View::make('pdf.reportScan.aScan', $valueArray)->render()); // set page from view with data
            $filename = "TempFileAscan $lastNameClient .pdf";
            $pdf->save(storage_path( "$filename"));
            return response()->download(storage_path("$filename"))->deleteFileAfterSend(true);

In this way I am creating two separate parts to get this working
But is there way to get the instance before the loadView.
Or maybe yuo have an other solution?

Thanks is advance

Eric