Useful notes for developers working with PDF generation, document conversion, and infrastructure decisions.
We’ve given the website a complete refresh.Our previous site launch in September 2024 was primarily an in-place upgrade and migration to Raytha CMS. This redesign is different. It’s a full overhaul...
Our default public SaaS line at v2.api2pdf.com has the current limitations of 2 gb of memory, 2 CPU, and 90 second timeout. We are announcing the release of V2 XL at: v2-xl.api2pdf.com. You can use...
Happy Halloween, everyone! We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve completed a significant upgrade rollout. Here’s a summary of the updates and what we’ve accomplished. Comple...
There is a lot of drama in the industry right now surrounding the Wordpress content management system. Since we launched api2pdf.com, we've been hosting our Wordpress website on WPEngine. See more ...
If you’re having trouble with the PDF rendered by API2PDF, here’s a simple way to troubleshoot your HTML locally using Google Chrome: Copy the HTML you’re sending to API2PDF and ...
Intro If you are generating PDF files from URLs or HTML with Headless Chrome and are trying to have a background color in the header or footer template of the resulting PDF file, you might be runni...
If you are seeing a 403 Forbidden error code in your logs when trying to make API calls with the any-to-pdf, merge pdf, password, bookmarks, extract-pages endpoints, this article will point you in ...
Introduction We are proud to announce a new feature with for our PdfSharp endpoints: Extract Pages. With this endpoint, you will be able to specify (optionally), a start and end of a page range of ...
Intro At the time of this post, Cloudflare Workers does not support the idea of embedding Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf in its environment. Workers also does not the idea of running docker contain...
We are proud to announce an enhancement to our /chrome/image endpoints which are quickly gaining popularity. You can now declare a custom ViewPort option. Prior to this, you were locked into a 1920...
Intro If you found us through Google, welcome! Api2Pdf is a REST API that helps developers generate and interact with PDF files. Among our most popular endpoints is merging or combining PDFs togeth...
PuppeteerSharp version 5.1.0 has added support for omitBackground flag. This is a boolean option that will, if set to true, make your PDFs have a transparent background. We don’t actuall...
Intro If you are writing php 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 yo...
Intro For those who are nodejs developers, you might have a niche requirement to convert a PDF into HTML, or extract text content from a PDF for indexing purposes. Here at API2PDF, we have a PDF to...
Intro If you are writing nodejs / javascript 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 wo...
Intro For those who are c# / .net core developers, you might have a niche requirement to convert a PDF into HTML, or extract text content from a PDF for indexing purposes. Here at API2PDF, we have ...
Intro API2PDF is a REST API that provides utilities for manipulating PDFs and other files. You landed here because you just want a simple and reliable way to add passwords to PDF files as a python ...
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 a...
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 a...
Intro API2PDF is a REST API that provides utilities for manipulating PDFs and other files. You landed here because you just want a simple and reliable way to add passwords to PDF files as a c# / .n...
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 o...
Intro If you are working with PDFs as a nodejs developer, you know the pain associated with working with them. In this post we will cover how to conveniently add bookmarks to a PDF using our REST A...
Intro API2PDF is a REST API that provides utilities for manipulating PDFs and other files. You landed here because you just want a simple and reliable way to add passwords to PDF files as a nodejs ...
Intro For those who are php developers, you might have a niche requirement to convert a PDF into HTML, or extract text content from a PDF for indexing purposes. Here at API2PDF, we have a PDF to HT...
Intro If you are writing nodejs / javascript 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 wo...