diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index 55c90496ae..3f6f0c7fdc 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ MAILGUN_SECRET=
 #POSTMARK_API_TOKEN=
 
 PHANTOMJS_CLOUD_KEY='a-demo-key-with-low-quota-per-ip-address'
+#PHANTOMJS_BIN_PATH=/usr/local/bin/phantomjs
+
 LOG=single
 REQUIRE_HTTPS=false
 API_SECRET=password
diff --git a/app/Libraries/CurlUtils.php b/app/Libraries/CurlUtils.php
index d6ce9d0e37..4a11a90939 100644
--- a/app/Libraries/CurlUtils.php
+++ b/app/Libraries/CurlUtils.php
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <?php namespace App\Libraries;
 
+use JonnyW\PhantomJs\Client;
+
 class CurlUtils
 {
     public static function post($url, $data, $headers = false)
@@ -38,4 +40,28 @@ class CurlUtils
 
         return $response;
     }
+
+    public static function phantom($method, $url)
+    {
+        if ( ! $path = env('PHANTOMJS_BIN_PATH')) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $client = Client::getInstance();
+        $client->getEngine()->setPath($path);
+
+        $request = $client->getMessageFactory()->createRequest($url, $method);
+        $response = $client->getMessageFactory()->createResponse();
+
+        // Send the request
+        $client->send($request, $response);
+        
+        if ($response->getStatus() === 200) {
+            return $response->getContent();
+        } else {
+            //$response->getStatus();
+            return false;
+        }
+
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/Models/Invoice.php b/app/Models/Invoice.php
index 61fea0efdb..62374f885e 100644
--- a/app/Models/Invoice.php
+++ b/app/Models/Invoice.php
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ use App\Events\InvoiceWasCreated;
 use App\Events\InvoiceWasUpdated;
 use App\Events\InvoiceInvitationWasEmailed;
 use App\Events\QuoteInvitationWasEmailed;
+use App\Libraries\CurlUtils;
 
 /**
  * Class Invoice
@@ -1126,21 +1127,23 @@ class Invoice extends EntityModel implements BalanceAffecting
      */
     public function getPDFString()
     {
-        if (!env('PHANTOMJS_CLOUD_KEY')) {
+        if ( ! env('PHANTOMJS_CLOUD_KEY') && ! env('PHANTOMJS_BIN_PATH')) {
             return false;
         }
 
         $invitation = $this->invitations[0];
         $link = $invitation->getLink('view', true);
-        $key = env('PHANTOMJS_CLOUD_KEY');
 
-        if (Utils::isNinjaDev()) {
-            $link = env('TEST_LINK');
+        if (env('PHANTOMJS_BIN_PATH')) {
+            $pdfString = CurlUtils::phantom('GET', $link . '?phantomjs=true');
+        } elseif ($key = env('PHANTOMJS_CLOUD_KEY')) {
+            if (Utils::isNinjaDev()) {
+                $link = env('TEST_LINK');
+            }
+            $url = "http://api.phantomjscloud.com/api/browser/v2/{$key}/?request=%7Burl:%22{$link}?phantomjs=true%22,renderType:%22html%22%7D";
+            $pdfString = CurlUtils::get($url);
         }
 
-        $url = "http://api.phantomjscloud.com/api/browser/v2/{$key}/?request=%7Burl:%22{$link}?phantomjs=true%22,renderType:%22html%22%7D";
-
-        $pdfString = file_get_contents($url);
         $pdfString = strip_tags($pdfString);
 
         if ( ! $pdfString || strlen($pdfString) < 200) {
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 6081e25184..ed13c19da2 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@
         "jaybizzle/laravel-crawler-detect": "1.*",
         "codedge/laravel-selfupdater": "5.x-dev",
         "predis/predis": "^1.1",
-        "nwidart/laravel-modules": "^1.14"
+        "nwidart/laravel-modules": "^1.14",
+        "jonnyw/php-phantomjs": "4.*"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 6dedb59bfc..6f639e3854 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
         "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "hash": "7e547dba71449ade427b93dc8b108e0f",
-    "content-hash": "c05b529acf38d8dd1ab5452432e67887",
+    "hash": "10dafe2e4414d132b3901b8950150c31",
+    "content-hash": "1e2d58c1e958d77ff76b29acccea8585",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "agmscode/omnipay-agms",
@@ -2705,6 +2705,47 @@
             ],
             "time": "2014-11-20 16:49:30"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "jakoch/phantomjs-installer",
+            "version": "2.1.1",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/jakoch/phantomjs-installer.git",
+                "reference": "b8ee2aac9b95f9a9ee30a05a4df4a0984a8a8b85"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jakoch/phantomjs-installer/zipball/b8ee2aac9b95f9a9ee30a05a4df4a0984a8a8b85",
+                "reference": "b8ee2aac9b95f9a9ee30a05a4df4a0984a8a8b85",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-openssl": "*"
+            },
+            "type": "custom-installer",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-0": {
+                    "PhantomInstaller\\": "src/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Jens-André Koch",
+                    "email": "jakoch@web.de"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "A Composer package which installs the PhantomJS binary (Linux, Windows, Mac) into `/bin` of your project.",
+            "keywords": [
+                "binaries",
+                "headless",
+                "phantomjs"
+            ],
+            "time": "2016-01-25 16:30:30"
+        },
         {
             "name": "jakub-onderka/php-console-color",
             "version": "0.1",
@@ -2992,6 +3033,62 @@
             ],
             "time": "2016-01-25 15:38:17"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "jonnyw/php-phantomjs",
+            "version": "v4.5.1",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/jonnnnyw/php-phantomjs.git",
+                "reference": "cf8d9a221f4c624aa1537c55a2e181f4b50367d7"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jonnnnyw/php-phantomjs/zipball/cf8d9a221f4c624aa1537c55a2e181f4b50367d7",
+                "reference": "cf8d9a221f4c624aa1537c55a2e181f4b50367d7",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "jakoch/phantomjs-installer": "2.1.1",
+                "php": ">=5.3.0",
+                "symfony/config": "~2.3|~3.0",
+                "symfony/dependency-injection": "~2.3|~3.0",
+                "symfony/filesystem": "~2.3|~3.0",
+                "symfony/yaml": "~2.3|~3.0",
+                "twig/twig": "~1.16"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
+                "smalot/pdfparser": "~0.9",
+                "zendframework/zendpdf": "~2.0"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-0": {
+                    "JonnyW\\PhantomJs\\": "src"
+                },
+                "classmap": [
+                    "src/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Jonny Wenmoth",
+                    "email": "contact@jonnyw.me",
+                    "homepage": "http://jonnyw.me/"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "A PHP wrapper for loading pages through PhantomJS",
+            "keywords": [
+                "Headless Browser",
+                "phantomjs",
+                "testing"
+            ],
+            "time": "2016-06-28 16:00:15"
+        },
         {
             "name": "justinbusschau/omnipay-secpay",
             "version": "2.0.6",
@@ -7098,6 +7195,62 @@
             "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
             "time": "2016-07-10 08:05:47"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "symfony/config",
+            "version": "v3.2.1",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/config.git",
+                "reference": "b4ec9f099599cfc5b7f4d07bb2e910781a2be5e4"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/config/zipball/b4ec9f099599cfc5b7f4d07bb2e910781a2be5e4",
+                "reference": "b4ec9f099599cfc5b7f4d07bb2e910781a2be5e4",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.5.9",
+                "symfony/filesystem": "~2.8|~3.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "symfony/yaml": "~3.0"
+            },
+            "suggest": {
+                "symfony/yaml": "To use the yaml reference dumper"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.2-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Component\\Config\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Symfony Config Component",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "time": "2016-12-09 07:45:17"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/console",
             "version": "v3.0.9",
@@ -7268,6 +7421,66 @@
             "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
             "time": "2016-07-30 07:22:48"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "symfony/dependency-injection",
+            "version": "v3.1.8",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/dependency-injection.git",
+                "reference": "bd2a915cd29ccfc93c2835765a8b06dd1cc83aa9"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/dependency-injection/zipball/bd2a915cd29ccfc93c2835765a8b06dd1cc83aa9",
+                "reference": "bd2a915cd29ccfc93c2835765a8b06dd1cc83aa9",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.5.9"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "symfony/config": "~2.8|~3.0",
+                "symfony/expression-language": "~2.8|~3.0",
+                "symfony/yaml": "~2.8.7|~3.0.7|~3.1.1|~3.2"
+            },
+            "suggest": {
+                "symfony/config": "",
+                "symfony/expression-language": "For using expressions in service container configuration",
+                "symfony/proxy-manager-bridge": "Generate service proxies to lazy load them",
+                "symfony/yaml": ""
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.1-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Component\\DependencyInjection\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Symfony DependencyInjection Component",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "time": "2016-12-08 14:58:14"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/event-dispatcher",
             "version": "v2.8.14",
@@ -7328,6 +7541,55 @@
             "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
             "time": "2016-10-13 01:43:15"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "symfony/filesystem",
+            "version": "v3.2.1",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/filesystem.git",
+                "reference": "8d4cf7561a5b17e5eb7a02b80d0b8f014a3796d4"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/filesystem/zipball/8d4cf7561a5b17e5eb7a02b80d0b8f014a3796d4",
+                "reference": "8d4cf7561a5b17e5eb7a02b80d0b8f014a3796d4",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.5.9"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.2-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Component\\Filesystem\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Symfony Filesystem Component",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "time": "2016-11-24 00:46:43"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/finder",
             "version": "v3.0.9",
@@ -8100,6 +8362,55 @@
             ],
             "time": "2016-07-26 08:03:56"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "symfony/yaml",
+            "version": "v3.1.3",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/yaml.git",
+                "reference": "1819adf2066880c7967df7180f4f662b6f0567ac"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/yaml/zipball/1819adf2066880c7967df7180f4f662b6f0567ac",
+                "reference": "1819adf2066880c7967df7180f4f662b6f0567ac",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.5.9"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.1-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-4": {
+                    "Symfony\\Component\\Yaml\\": ""
+                },
+                "exclude-from-classmap": [
+                    "/Tests/"
+                ]
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "MIT"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Symfony Community",
+                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Symfony Yaml Component",
+            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
+            "time": "2016-07-17 14:02:08"
+        },
         {
             "name": "tijsverkoyen/css-to-inline-styles",
             "version": "1.5.5",
@@ -8286,6 +8597,67 @@
             ],
             "time": "2016-07-25 15:51:55"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "twig/twig",
+            "version": "v1.30.0",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/twigphp/Twig.git",
+                "reference": "c6ff71094fde15d12398eaba029434b013dc5e59"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/twigphp/Twig/zipball/c6ff71094fde15d12398eaba029434b013dc5e59",
+                "reference": "c6ff71094fde15d12398eaba029434b013dc5e59",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.2.7"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "symfony/debug": "~2.7",
+                "symfony/phpunit-bridge": "~3.2@dev"
+            },
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "1.30-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "autoload": {
+                "psr-0": {
+                    "Twig_": "lib/"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "BSD-3-Clause"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
+                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com",
+                    "homepage": "http://fabien.potencier.org",
+                    "role": "Lead Developer"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Armin Ronacher",
+                    "email": "armin.ronacher@active-4.com",
+                    "role": "Project Founder"
+                },
+                {
+                    "name": "Twig Team",
+                    "homepage": "http://twig.sensiolabs.org/contributors",
+                    "role": "Contributors"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "Twig, the flexible, fast, and secure template language for PHP",
+            "homepage": "http://twig.sensiolabs.org",
+            "keywords": [
+                "templating"
+            ],
+            "time": "2016-12-23 11:06:22"
+        },
         {
             "name": "vink/omnipay-komoju",
             "version": "v1.0",
@@ -10581,55 +10953,6 @@
             "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
             "time": "2016-07-26 08:04:17"
         },
-        {
-            "name": "symfony/yaml",
-            "version": "v3.1.3",
-            "source": {
-                "type": "git",
-                "url": "https://github.com/symfony/yaml.git",
-                "reference": "1819adf2066880c7967df7180f4f662b6f0567ac"
-            },
-            "dist": {
-                "type": "zip",
-                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/symfony/yaml/zipball/1819adf2066880c7967df7180f4f662b6f0567ac",
-                "reference": "1819adf2066880c7967df7180f4f662b6f0567ac",
-                "shasum": ""
-            },
-            "require": {
-                "php": ">=5.5.9"
-            },
-            "type": "library",
-            "extra": {
-                "branch-alias": {
-                    "dev-master": "3.1-dev"
-                }
-            },
-            "autoload": {
-                "psr-4": {
-                    "Symfony\\Component\\Yaml\\": ""
-                },
-                "exclude-from-classmap": [
-                    "/Tests/"
-                ]
-            },
-            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
-            "license": [
-                "MIT"
-            ],
-            "authors": [
-                {
-                    "name": "Fabien Potencier",
-                    "email": "fabien@symfony.com"
-                },
-                {
-                    "name": "Symfony Community",
-                    "homepage": "https://symfony.com/contributors"
-                }
-            ],
-            "description": "Symfony Yaml Component",
-            "homepage": "https://symfony.com",
-            "time": "2016-07-17 14:02:08"
-        },
         {
             "name": "webmozart/assert",
             "version": "1.1.0",
diff --git a/resources/lang/en/texts.php b/resources/lang/en/texts.php
index d43a45d305..fdca9cf3a5 100644
--- a/resources/lang/en/texts.php
+++ b/resources/lang/en/texts.php
@@ -2295,6 +2295,8 @@ $LANG = array(
     'inclusive' => 'Inclusive',
     'exclusive' => 'Exclusive',
     'postal_city_state' => 'Postal/City/State',
+    'phantomjs_help' => 'In certain cases the app uses :link_phantom to generate the PDF, install :link_docs to generate it locally.',
+
 );
 
 return $LANG;
diff --git a/resources/views/accounts/email_settings.blade.php b/resources/views/accounts/email_settings.blade.php
index fcb7c77acf..a6d8858195 100644
--- a/resources/views/accounts/email_settings.blade.php
+++ b/resources/views/accounts/email_settings.blade.php
@@ -27,8 +27,16 @@
             <h3 class="panel-title">{!! trans('texts.email_settings') !!}</h3>
         </div>
         <div class="panel-body form-padding-right">
-            {!! Former::checkbox('pdf_email_attachment')->text(trans('texts.enable')) !!}
-            {!! Former::checkbox('document_email_attachment')->text(trans('texts.enable')) !!}
+
+            {!! Former::checkbox('pdf_email_attachment')
+                    ->text(trans('texts.enable'))
+                    ->help( Utils::isNinja() ? trans('texts.phantomjs_help', [
+                        'link_phantom' => link_to('https://phantomjscloud.com/', 'phantomjscloud.com', ['target' => '_blank']),
+                        'link_docs' => link_to('https://www.invoiceninja.com/self-host/#phantomjs', 'PhantomJS', ['target' => '_blank'])
+                    ]) : false) !!}
+
+            {!! Former::checkbox('document_email_attachment')
+                    ->text(trans('texts.enable')) !!}
 
             &nbsp;