Archive for 2021


C# / .NET – Convert HTML to Xlsx

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro If you are writing c# / .net core code, you might be tasked with the strange requirement of converting HTML to a Microsoft Excel (xlsx) file. After some research, you discover that this is not as trivial as you hoped it would be. You might have ended up on stackoverflow seeing old, outdated libraries […]

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Convert HTML to Docx with C# / .NET Core

July 14th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro If you are writing c# / .net core code, you might be tasked with generating a Microsoft Word (Docx) file. After some research, you discover that this is not as trivial as you hoped it would be. You might have ended up on stackoverflow seeing old, outdated libraries or confusing answers that ask you […]

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C# / .NET Core – Generate thumbnail image of PDF or Office file

July 13th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro If you are writing c# / .net core code, you might be tasked with generating an image preview or thumbnail image of a PDF or Microsoft Office file like Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even email files. If you ended up on this article you probably have been doing research for hours and getting nowhere. […]

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C# / .NET tutorial – Take a screenshot of a website

July 13th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro You might need to convert a URL to an image, URL to PNG, or automatically take a screenshot of a website for various reasons. Maybe you are crawling websites and would like an image preview of all of them for a database. In either case, if you’re writing c# / .net core and you […]

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Convert HTML to Image with C# / .NET Core

July 13th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Intro You might need to convert HTML to an image or HTML to png format for various reasons. Perhaps you are generating a snapshot or image preview of an HTML template you designed as part of your application. Maybe you are crawling websites and would like an image preview of all of them for a […]

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v2 Officially Released

July 10th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

This is a major release which contains breaking changes. You can remain on the older version of the API if you wish to keep using v2018.api2pdf.com. Upgrade is not required, though recommended. We will continue to run the older version of the API indefinitely. Version 2 of Api2Pdf full REST API documentation located here: https://www.api2pdf.com/documentation/v2 Feature […]

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1000 Paying Businesses Milestone!

June 9th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

Api2Pdf proudly announces that we have reached 1000 paying businesses. 1000 customers is a great milestone for any SaaS business. Thank you to all of our loyal customers for being a part of our journey over the last 3 years!

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Get Image Preview or Thumbnail of PDF or Office File with Simple API Call

April 27th, 2021 / by api2pdf /

We continue to enhance our V2 API which is loaded with features now. Check out our REST API documentation here. A major annoyance for developers is having to generate a thumbnail or image preview of an uploaded Office file or PDF file. We have now added a new endpoint located at /libreoffice/thumbnail that will ingest […]

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Enhanced support for converting emails to PDF format

January 1st, 2021 / by api2pdf /

For a while, a pain point for our LibreOffice endpoint is that it struggled with converting email files to PDF. The file extension for these were often .eml or .msg. People would need to either convert email files to PDF format in large batches, or they are using PDFs as a form of File Preview […]

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