Archive for September, 2018
Solution for overlapping content when generating PDFs with table headers and footers
Developers often run into an issue when converting HTML to PDF that contains tables. The issue is that if the content runs onto the next page, the table headers (<thead>) and footers (<tfoot>) are repeating and overlapping on each other when they shouldn’t be. This happens on both wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome. In fact, it […]
Read MoreOpenStreetMap + LeafletJS + PDF
Introduction Generating a map is hard enough. Google has recently clamped down on their APIs which has left developers scrambling for open source solutions. In today’s article we will take a look at how to embed an OpenStreetMap tile into a PDF using LeafLet.js. For our example, we have taken an example from the Leaflet.js […]
Read MoreAdding a Watermark with WKHTMLTOPDF
Introduction If you are on this article, you already know what a watermark is, but just to be sure, it is a way of adding an image to a document to show where it was generated from or to avoid tampering for some reason. A common use of watermarking is to add the word DRAFT […]
Read MoreCKEditor Save to PDF Plugin
Intro CKEditor4 is a battle tested and widely used WYSIWYG html editor. In this post we will discuss how to use our open source plugin for saving the document to PDF. Example Code + Demo Feel free to check out our github page for detailed step by step documentation. HTML Code The above HTML code […]
Read MoreConvert HTML to PDF with client side javascript and jquery
It is rare, but there may be some situations where the only option you have to convert HTML to PDF or a URL to PDF is from the client-side javascript. Now there are some existing options such as jsPDF, but they are severely limited. An ideal situation would be to have access to wkhtmltopdf or […]
Read MoreConvert HTML to PDF with nodejs / javascript
Intro Here at Api2Pdf, we are proud to announce a new client library for nodejs! Our node library makes it easy to convert HTML to PDF, URL to PDF, Word to PDF, and Merge PDFs together. We support a number of endpoints such as wkhtmltopdf, Headless Chrome, and LibreOffice. View the documentation for our Nodejs […]
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