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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 this endpoint instead if you need more ...
Continue readingHappy 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. Complete Overhaul of Code Architecture Our cor...
Continue readingThere 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 about this drama here. To be honest, we ...
Continue readingIf 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 paste it into a plain text editor like N...
Continue readingIntro 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 running into issues. This is even the case wh...
Continue readingIf 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 the right direction. When you make one o...
Continue readingIntroduction 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 your PDF file and API2PDF will extract a...
Continue readingIntro 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 containers either. This may change in the futur...
Continue readingWe 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 x 1080 viewport, which is the equivalen...
Continue readingIntro 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 together. To support the merging of PDF files,...
Continue readingPuppeteerSharp 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 actually know why people would need this, but i...
Continue readingIntro 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 ...
Continue readingIntro 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 developer. Our API will take your .pdf f...
Continue readingIntro 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 websi...
Continue readingIntro 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 stackoverf...
Continue readingIntro 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 would be. You might have ended up on stack...
Continue readingIntro 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 ...
Continue readingIntro 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# / .net core developer. Our API will take you...
Continue readingIntro 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 a PDF to HTML endpoint that does a best ...
Continue readingIntro 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 developer. Our API will take your .pdf f...
Continue readingIntro 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 HTML endpoint that does a best effort t...
Continue readingIntro 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 HTML endpoint that does a best effort to e...
Continue readingIntro 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 would be. You might have ended up on stack...
Continue readingIntro If you are writing python 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 seei...
Continue readingIntro 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 you ended up on this article you probably ...
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