Archive for December, 2018
Best free PrinceXML alternative – Headless Chrome
Intro PrinceXML is a popular library for converting HTML to PDF. It is often touted as the “best” HTML to PDF conversion tool currently on the market. However, it comes with an unbelievably hefty price tag of $3800 for installation on a single server. This is game over for most companies. Free Alternative to PrinceXML […]
Read MoreConvert HTML to PDF with Javascript and React
Intro In a previous post, we provided guidance with how to generate PDFs from HTML and web pages with javascript and jquery. In this post, we provide a sample React component to convert HTML to PDFs using Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf. Api2Pdf is an HTML to PDF API that allows developers to generate PDFs at […]
Read MoreReportLab Alternative for PDF generation in Python
Intro Click here to start generating PDFs in Python now! Get going in just a few minutes! ReportLab has been around for a very long time and is one of the more popular options for generating PDFs in the Python programming language. According to its website, it receives 50,000 downloads per month and is included […]
Read More[Solved] Issue rendering UTF-8 or Unicode characters in HTML and PDFs
Intro Api2Pdf is popular all over the world and therefore we have customers who need to generate PDFs in many different languages. One problem that has come up recently is that a customer needed to render characters from their native language: Dutch. Dutch has some special characters that require unicode or UTF-8. For example, these: […]
Read MoreOptimizing Azure Functions to avoid the 300 connection limit
Intro Api2Pdf is a web service for generating PDFs from HTML, URLs, and Offices files. In order to scale to millions of requests, our backend runs on a serverless architecture. Our infrastructure is comprised of three main components: Web App, located at portal.api2pdf.com and built on .NET Core. The portal allows you to pay for […]
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