Archive for the ‘Example Uses’ Category
Convert HTML to PDF with Javascript and React
Intro In a previous post, we provided guidance with how to generate PDFs from HTML and web pages with javascript and jquery. In this post, we provide a sample React component to convert HTML to PDFs using Headless Chrome or wkhtmltopdf. Api2Pdf is an HTML to PDF API that allows developers to generate PDFs at […]
Read MoreHTML to PDF with Python and wkhtmltopdf or Headless Chrome
Intro In this article we will cover converting HTML to PDF format with Python with just a few lines of code and the Api2Pdf API. Api2Pdf is an HTML to PDF API built on AWS Lambda that allows you to produce PDFs at massive scale. Api2Pdf offers both wkhtmltopdf and Headless Chrome as options to […]
Read MoreMerge PDFs together with C# and .NET Core
Intro In this article we are going to cover how to merge PDFs together with C# and .NET Core with just a few lines of code using the Api2Pdf dotnet client library. Api2Pdf is a REST API that makes it super easy to generate and combine PDFs. You can view the full documentation of the […]
Read MoreConvert powerpoint to PDF with Python and LibreOffice
Intro In this article we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to convert a powerpoint file (ppt, pptx) to a PDF file using Python and the Api2Pdf LibreOffice API endpoint. Api2Pdf is a REST API that makes it easy to generate PDF files from HTML, URLs, and Microsoft Office files. Api2Pdf exposes an […]
Read MoreFPDF Alternative for PHP for Generating PDFs
Intro FPDF is an open source library to generate PDFs 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 there are issues with FPDF. With a pure PHP implementation, you run into serious problems. You […]
Read MoreMerge PDFs together with Python on AWS Lambda
Intro Api2Pdf is a REST API that allows you to generate PDFs at massive scale. Among the functions that Api2Pdf provides, merging PDFs together is one of the more popular capabilities. It is quite simple to do in Python, and this article will show you how. Merge PDF API In order to merge PDFs together, […]
Read MoreFree Bootstrap 4 HTML Template for Displaying Database Records to PDF
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 form Scholarship application form Any kind of database record or form submission If you are a developer, you likely […]
Read MoreOpenStreetMap + LeafletJS + PDF
Introduction Generating 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 embed an OpenStreetMap tile into a PDF using LeafLet.js. For our example, we have taken an example from the Leaflet.js […]
Read MoreAdding a Watermark with WKHTMLTOPDF
Introduction 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 use of watermarking is to add the word DRAFT […]
Read MoreCKEditor Save to PDF Plugin
Intro 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 for detailed step by step documentation. HTML Code The above HTML code […]
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