Multi-lingual support for HTML to PDF (wkhtmltopdf / Headless Chrome)
Intro – HTML to PDF with Multiple Languages A frequent question we receive at API2PDF is if it is possible to generate PDFs with foreign languages, or languages that contain special characters in their text. The answer is yes, and it is possible to support these languages in both wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome rendering engines. […]
Read MoreWeb service to convert HTML + CSS to PDF
Intro API2PDF is a web service for generating PDFs at massive scale. Our mission is to make the experience of generating PDFs for application developers not completely miserable. Our system is designed with extreme scalability in mind and is ready for enterprise use. We are built on a serverless architecture, AWS Lambda, which means we […]
Read MoredomPDF Alternative for PHP
Intro domPDF is an HTML to PDF Converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. […]
Read MorejsPDF Alternative for PDF Generation
jsPDF is a client side library for javascript that allows you generate PDFs. It is open source and convenient for quick and dirty PDF generation, but unfortunately it lacks some key functionality. Since it is not browser-based, building a PDF with jsPDF can be cumbersome. In most cases, all you are looking to do is […]
Read MoreRender Google Map to PDF with Headless Chrome
If you are reading this article, you are likely having issue getting a Google Map to render properly when printing to PDF with Headless Chrome. The problem stems from Headless Chrome printing the page to PDF too fast — prior to Google Maps being able to display their map. Here at API2PDF, we are often […]
Read MoreIronPDF Alternative for PDF Generation in C# and .NET
IronPDF is a C# library for converting HTML to PDF, URLs to PDF, and images to PDFs. Additionally, it supports extracting data and images from existing PDF files. And finally, you can merge, split, and manipulate PDFs as well. It’s built exclusively for C# and .NET developers. IronPDF is similar to iTextSharp, another .NET PDF […]
Read MoreGenerate PDF with Python Flask or Django
If you are building a web application in Python with either of the two most popular frameworks – Flask or Django, there’s a good chance you will need to support functionality for PDF generation. Convert HTML to PDF with Flask or Django To generate PDFs, we are going to use API2PDF. API2PDF is a REST […]
Read More[Solved] Error – Couldn’t connect to server localhost
Fixing the Issue localhost is your development machine. If you send a url to a PDF to API2PDF that is localhost, there is nothing API2PDF can do. Localhost is your own machine, and API2PDF lives in the cloud on AWS Lambda, so it has no access to your file. That is why when you send […]
Read More[Solved] Headless Chrome options ignoring landscape mode when printing to pdf
We ran into a tough debugging issue this morning when a customer wrote in saying that our .NET client library was not generating his PDFs in ‘landscape’ mode while using Headless Chrome. The customer provided all of their C# code and I went to work trying to figure out what’s going on. He was using […]
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