Useful notes for developers working with PDF generation, document conversion, and infrastructure decisions.
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...
Continue readingWe’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#, bu...
Continue readingWe 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 ...
Continue readingHello 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:...
Continue readingWelcome 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. Ver...
Continue readingIntro API2PDF is proud to announce it has built a Docker Container to provide a convenient and reliable Web API to convert web pages and HTML to PDF format and screenshots. The underlying rendering engine is Headless Chrome w/ Puppetee...
Continue readingThe Past Year Hello everyone, Zack here! One year ago we hit the metaphorical GO button. It was anti-climactic of course because we had no launch strategy and Google had yet to even index our website. It was about 10 days later where I...
Continue readingIntro In some cases you may need to convert HTML to PDF from your client side application. Rendering a high quality PDF is not obvious and doing it purely from javascript isn’t feasible either. You need to be able to use a browse...
Continue readingIntro On May 15th, 2019 at 5:01 PM UTC, API2PDF services stopped generating PDF files, returning high error rates. This is what is depicted in the image above. 3 minutes later, at 5:04 PM, services resumed. While only down for 3 minute...
Continue readingIntro VueJs is a popular client side javascript framework. It has risen in prominence as an alternative to juggernauts like ReactJs and Angular. Part of its allure comes from its simplicity and lower barrier to entry. While building a ...
Continue readingIntro Every now and then I like to post about API2PDF’s infrastructure and business side. It can be slightly more interesting than talking about PDF files. In today’s post we will combine the two by discussing our...
Continue readingWe received a support request from a developer who was using Bootstrap’s CSS and his HTML table was set to “striped” via: <table class=”table table-striped”> …</table> Now the HTML was...
Continue readingIn this article we will walk you through the best way to figure out why your HTML is not properly rendering as PDF using our API service. Step 1 Open up your favorite text editor like notepad++ or VS Code and save your raw HTML that you&...
Continue readingToday we received an inquiry about wkhtmltopdf’s poor rendering of HTML to PDF with Google’s Roboto font. Roboto is one of the most popular fonts and so it’s important for this to be resolved. The issue with this rend...
Continue readingIntro – 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 ...
Continue readingIntro 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 mi...
Continue readingIntro 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 styleshee...
Continue readingOne of the best ways to generate barcodes and QR codes is to use the open source library Zebra Crossing, aka ZXING. It’s available in multiple programming languages, but you can only reliably generate these codes on the server-side...
Continue readingjsPDF 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, buil...
Continue readingIf 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 Goo...
Continue readingIronPDF 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...
Continue readingIf 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...
Continue readingFixing 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...
Continue readingWe 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# ...
Continue readingWe released the full code and documentation on GitHub. See full details on how to generate PDFs using Salesforce. Many developers moving to Salesforce are used to the power of .NET or Java and have their favorite way of genera...
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