Archive for 2020
Convert HTML to Image or URL to Image with Headless Chrome
Convert HTML to Image or URL to Image with Headless Chrome Headless Chrome provides a great way to take screenshots or images of raw HTML or a URL of a website. If you need to do this at scale with an easy to use API, we’ve got you covered. We provide a super simple API […]
Read MoreVirtual conferences are on the rise
Today is DockerCON Live 2020 – Link is here. And API2PDF will be attending. They also made the entire event free. With so many conferences being cancelled, we are seeing the rise and likely permanence of virtual conferences and virtual conference technology. Converting your in-person conference which has speakers, presentations, networking events, breakout rooms to […]
Read MoreAPI2PDF and GDPR compliance
API2PDF is GDPR and privacy compliant. We do not store or log the payload data used to make the API calls at all. All PDFs self-delete from our storage after 24 hours, but you have the ability to DELETE them immediately. Our v2 API supports direct upload to your own server instead of using our […]
Read More[Resolved] Issue downloading PDF with Java
We’re not java experts here, but we have gotten some reports from customers who run into issues after generating the PDF file – they want to download that file and save it locally. Never faced any issues with python or c#, but Java seems to have some problems. The below code is example of how […]
Read More[Resolved] PDF is rendering blank or only partially with Headless Chrome
Intro In this post we will outline why in some cases PDFs are rendering blank or maybe only some elements, or part of elements are appearing but not everything on the page. We are going to explain why this occurs when rendering PDFs with Headless Chrome, but it would impact any browser based engine. Common […]
Read MorePdfSharp REST API now live on v2 beta
We are moving fast here at api2pdf with the progress of v2. Yesterday we made available LibreOffice with new functionality, and now we are releasing PdfSharp with new functionality. v2 in public beta – documentation available here. PdfSharp endpoints now support /pdfsharp/merge – combine multiple PDFs into a single PDF (same as v1) /pdfsharp/bookmarks – […]
Read MoreLibreOffice functionality added to v2 public beta
Hello everyone! We are proud to announce that LibreOffice has been added to our v2 public beta. Documentation is available here. There is new functionality that is coming with this release. We have four endpoints that you can use: /libreoffice/any-to-pdf – Same as v1, convert any office document or image file to PDF format. If […]
Read MoreApi2Pdf launches v2 in beta!
Welcome everybody, this is a follow up to our post six months ago. We are very excited to give you an update and to announce the launch of version 2 of API2PDF, now in early access beta. The documentation is available here. Version 2 currently only has our Headless Chrome endpoint. We will be migrating […]
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