In mini ecommerce dompdf which was setup previously was not working properly for exporting pdf within laravel with using php 8.
Hence, used dom pdf official github page - https://github.com/dompdf/dompdf to download latest version of the package using composer require dompdf/dompdf.
Then copied and pasted all vendor folders to the project public/dompdf folder.
Then used following snippet for proper working of export to pdf which downloads the pdf now correctly.
$dompdf = new Dompdf(); $dompdf->loadHtml($orderData); $dompdf->setPaper('A4', 'portrait'); $dompdf->render(); $dompdf->stream('order_'.$order->id.'.pdf');