Useful notes for developers working with PDF generation, document conversion, and infrastructure decisions.
Intro The following HTML template is excellent if you have a need to print any of the following items to PDF. Generic application form Job application form Contest submission form Award submission nomination form Grant application for...
Continue readingDevelopers often run into an issue when converting HTML to PDF that contains tables. The issue is that if the content runs onto the next page, the table headers (<thead>) and footers (<tfoot>) are repeating and overlapping on...
Continue readingIntroductionGenerating a map is hard enough. Google has recently clamped down on their APIs which has left developers scrambling for open source solutions. In today’s article we will take a look at how to embe...
Continue readingIntroduction If you are on this article, you already know what a watermark is, but just to be sure, it is a way of adding an image to a document to show where it was generated from or to avoid tampering for some reason. A common us...
Continue readingIntro CKEditor4 is a battle tested and widely used WYSIWYG html editor. In this post we will discuss how to use our open source plugin for saving the document to PDF. Example Code + Demo Feel free to check out our github page...
Continue readingIntro Here at Api2Pdf, we are proud to announce a new client library for nodejs! Our node library makes it easy to convert HTML to PDF, URL to PDF, Word to PDF, and Merge PDFs together. We support a number of endpoints such as wkhtm...
Continue readingIt is rare, but there may be some situations where the only option you have to convert HTML to PDF or a URL to PDF is from the client-side javascript. Now there are some existing options such as jsPDF, but they are severely limited. An i...
Continue readingIntro I can only imagine you reading this if you are an attorney or work for an attorney in some capacity. Perhaps you are a programmer and have been tasked with converting thousands of emails to PDF format. If so, you have come to the r...
Continue readingIntro TCPDF is an open source library to convert HTML to PDF in PHP. There are some key advantages to this. No external dependencies — can generate basic PDFs straight from PHP code. Free This might be okay for some, but the...
Continue readingIntro Surprisingly, if you are using Headless Chrome to generate PDFs, you may find that getting header html, footer html, and page numbers to appear is not completely obvious. There are two reasons for this: 1. You have set a flag to ge...
Continue readingIntro It is quite common, when tasked with generating a PDF report, or PDF book of some kind that you are required to break up the PDF into separate pages, or items. Typically an item will span multiple pages, and you want the next item ...
Continue readingIntro Adding a header, footer, and page numbers to your PDFs with wkhtmltopdf is rather straight forward. We provide a list of advanced options here. Wkhtmltopdf is a popular open source PDF rendering engine. The techniques describe...
Continue readingIntro TinyMCE is a battle tested and widely used WYSIWYG html editor. In this post we will discuss how to use our open source plugin for saving the document to PDF. Example Code + Demo Feel free to check out our github page&nbs...
Continue readingOur mission at API2PDF is to help developers use AWS Lambda to generate PDFs from HTML as cheaply and quickly as possible. Our two most popular rendering engines are WKHTMLTOPDF and Headless Chrome. Goal: Find out when it is cheape...
Continue readingIntro Software developers often have to deal with the real world in the form of shipping products. This is quite common with online shopping sites. Everyone is familiar with a packing slip that is included in the box they receive along w...
Continue readingTen years ago, there were very few options to converting HTML to PDF. At the time, we were talking about a handful of PDF rendering engines such as ABCPDF, TCPDF, and iTextSharp. iText reigned supreme over the .NET and Java world. It pro...
Continue readingIntro We previously made a post on how to export a HighChart graph to PDF using the wkhtmltopdf endpoint. This time we are going to cover AnyChart, which is arguably better than HighCarts in many areas. In this post we are...
Continue readingMany Api2Pdf customers generate PDFs for the purposes of generating packing slips, invoices, receipts, product labels, the list goes on and on. It only makes sense for us to make it even more convenient for you to generate barcodes and Q...
Continue readingIntro ScriptCase is a web development platform built on PHP that helps you put together web apps really quickly with less code. Connect to your database of choice, and start generating graphs, reports, and anything else you need. Sc...
Continue readingOur documentation at https://v2.api2pdf.com is built on swagger and so you are able to use the documentation itself to validate your API calls. Step 1 Make sure you have your API key at the ready from portal.api2pdf.com. On our docu...
Continue readingWe released the full code and documentation on Github: https://github.com/Api2Pdf/api2pdf.php. As Api2Pdf gains in popularity due to its low-cost and simple to use API for converting HTML to PDFs, we have started to get requests for...
Continue readingThis blog post is a walk-through on how to generate PDFs from HTML, URLs, and Office Docs (word, excel, powerpoint, etc) from MuleSoft with the help of Api2Pdf.com. MuleSoft and it’s Anypoint Platform technology allows yo...
Continue readingIf you’re a developer building some kind of shopping cart or checkout mechanism, chances are you will have to provide functionality to generate invoices and receipts in PDF format. This can be a real hassle, especially if you&rsquo...
Continue readingIntro As a developer, you might be tasked with the challenge of generating some kind of report to PDF. The report requires graphs like line graphs, bar charts, pie charts, etc. You figure you can generate the report in HTML and then prin...
Continue readingApi2Pdf’s Mission: Make the experience of generating PDFs for application developers not completely miserable. To continue to pursue this mission, Api2Pdf has joined the RapidAPI.com platform to make it easy to test and deploy...
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