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Crystal Reports Alternative for PDF generation

Replace Crystal Reports for PDF output: build the report in HTML with your data and convert it to PDF with Headless Chrome thro...

ActivePDF Alternative for PDF Generation

An alternative to ActivePDF for .NET developers: convert HTML, URLs and Office documents to PDF, merge and manipulate PDFs thro...

Api2Pdf releases java client library to convert HTML to PDF and more!

Convert HTML to PDF from Java with the new Api2Pdf Maven package: HTML and URL to PDF, Office to PDF, merge PDFs and barcodes.

Best free PrinceXML alternative – Headless Chrome

PrinceXML costs thousands per server. Headless Chrome renders modern HTML and CSS to PDF for free, and Api2Pdf runs it for you ...

Convert HTML to PDF with Javascript and React

A sample React component that converts HTML to PDF with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf by calling the Api2Pdf REST API from the...

ReportLab Alternative for PDF generation in Python

ReportLab builds PDFs by hand. Write HTML and CSS instead and convert it from Python with Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf throug...

[Solved] Issue rendering UTF-8 or Unicode characters in HTML and PDFs

Accented and non-Latin characters show up as garbage in your PDF? Add the UTF-8 meta charset and encode the payload correctly. ...

Optimizing Azure Functions to avoid the 300 connection limit

How Api2Pdf hit the 300 outbound connection limit on Azure Functions, and the HttpClient and architecture changes that fixed it.

HTML to PDF with Python and wkhtmltopdf or Headless Chrome

Convert HTML and URLs to PDF from Python with the api2pdf package. Choose wkhtmltopdf or Headless Chrome, pass options, and dow...

Merge PDFs together with C# and .NET Core

Combine several PDFs into one from .NET Core with the Api2Pdf NuGet package: installation, the merge call and the returned file...

Convert powerpoint to PDF with Python and LibreOffice

Convert .ppt and .pptx presentations to PDF from Python using the Api2Pdf LibreOffice endpoint, without installing LibreOffice ...

Using custom fonts with wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome

Which fonts are available by default, how to load Google Fonts and custom web fonts with @font-face, and the caveats for each r...

Save a Web Page as PDF – WordPress Plugin

The Api2Pdf WordPress plugin adds a Save to PDF button to any page or post and converts it with Headless Chrome. Installation a...

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