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

Celebrating one year and tentative roadmap for the future of the API2PDF product

Founder Zack Schwartz looks back on the first year of Api2Pdf, the first paying customer, and shares the tentative roadmap, inc...

Convert HTML to PDF with javascript and AngularJS

Generate PDFs from an AngularJS app with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf through the Api2Pdf REST API. Sample controller code in...

Post Mortem – Ensuring High Availability on Azure Functions

A three minute outage on May 15, 2019, what caused it on Azure Functions, and the redundancy we added so a single region failur...

Convert HTML to PDF with javascript and VueJs

Convert HTML to PDF from a Vue.js application with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf by calling the Api2Pdf REST API. Sample compo...

Tackling API2PDF’s technical and business challenges with Azure Table Storage and Data Lake Analytics

How Api2Pdf stores a permanent log of every API call in Azure Table Storage and uses Data Lake Analytics for growth metrics and...

[Solved] Bootstrap striped table not printing to PDF

Browsers drop background colors when printing. Add -webkit-print-color-adjust: exact so Bootstrap striped rows and other backgr...

[Solved] Troubleshooting rendering issues with HTML to PDF

A repeatable way to debug a PDF that does not look like your HTML: save the HTML, open it in Chrome, use print preview and the ...

[Resolved] Bad kerning with wkhtmltopdf rendering of html

wkhtmltopdf spaces letters incorrectly with some fonts such as Roboto. The font-format and engine choices that resolve the kern...

Multi-lingual support for HTML to PDF (wkhtmltopdf / Headless Chrome)

Generate PDFs in any language with wkhtmltopdf or Headless Chrome: UTF-8, right-to-left text and the fonts that cover CJK, Arab...

Web service to convert HTML + CSS to PDF

Api2Pdf is a serverless web service that converts HTML and CSS to PDF at scale with Headless Chrome and wkhtmltopdf, with pay-a...

domPDF Alternative for PHP

dompdf supports CSS 2.1 and little else. Render modern HTML and CSS to PDF from PHP with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf through...

Generate Barcodes and QR codes with Javascript and jQuery (ZXING)

Generate QR codes and barcodes from client-side JavaScript or jQuery by calling the ZXING endpoint. Formats, sample code and an...

jsPDF Alternative for PDF Generation

jsPDF builds PDFs by hand in the browser and struggles with real HTML. Convert HTML to PDF with a browser engine through a REST...

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