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Release notes, tutorials in every language, troubleshooting guides and engineering notes from the team behind the PDF API.

v2 Officially Released

Version 2 of the Api2Pdf API is out of beta: Chrome HTML and URL to PDF with new options, LibreOffice, PdfSharp and ZXING. v201...

1000 Paying Businesses Milestone!

Api2Pdf reaches 1,000 paying businesses three years after launch. Thank you to every customer who has been part of the journey.

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

The new /libreoffice/thumbnail endpoint turns a PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint file into a preview image with one API call.

Enhanced support for converting emails to PDF format

The LibreOffice any-to-pdf endpoint now handles .eml and .msg email files properly, for batch conversion and file previews.

Convert HTML to Image or URL to Image with Headless Chrome

Take screenshots of raw HTML or any URL with a single GET or POST request to the Headless Chrome image endpoints. Options and e...

Virtual conferences are on the rise

Notes from DockerCon Live 2020 and why virtual conferences, and the technology behind them, are here to stay.

API2PDF and GDPR compliance

Api2Pdf does not log payloads, deletes files after 24 hours (or immediately on request) and can upload straight to your storage...

[Resolved] Issue downloading PDF with Java

Java code that downloads the PDF returned by Api2Pdf and saves it locally without corrupting the file, using Apache HttpClient.

[Resolved] PDF is rendering blank or only partially with Headless Chrome

Blank or half-rendered PDFs usually mean javascript had not finished, assets were blocked, or lazy loading. The causes and the ...

PdfSharp REST API now live on v2 beta

Merge PDFs, add bookmarks and password-protect PDFs with the new PdfSharp endpoints on Api2Pdf v2.

LibreOffice functionality added to v2 public beta

The v2 API gains four LibreOffice endpoints: any-to-pdf, pdf-to-html, html-to-docx and html-to-xlsx. Convert Office files and H...

Api2Pdf launches v2 in beta!

Version 2 of the Api2Pdf API enters early access with the Headless Chrome endpoint, new options and updated pricing. What chang...

Docker Container for Headless Chrome and Puppeteer

Api2Pdf's Docker container exposes a Web API for converting HTML and URLs to PDF and screenshots with Headless Chrome and Puppe...

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