Posts Tagged ‘html to pdf api’


Web service to convert HTML + CSS to PDF

March 23rd, 2019 / by api2pdf /

Intro API2PDF is a web service for generating PDFs at massive scale. Our mission is to make the experience of generating PDFs for application developers not completely miserable. Our system is designed with extreme scalability in mind and is ready for enterprise use. We are built on a serverless architecture, AWS Lambda, which means we […]

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domPDF Alternative for PHP

March 23rd, 2019 / by api2pdf /

Intro domPDF is an HTML to PDF Converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) a CSS 2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes. […]

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ReportLab Alternative for PDF generation in Python

December 12th, 2018 / by api2pdf /

Intro Click here to start generating PDFs in Python now! Get going in just a few minutes! ReportLab has been around for a very long time and is one of the more popular options for generating PDFs in the Python programming language. According to its website, it receives 50,000 downloads per month and is included […]

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HTML to PDF with Python and wkhtmltopdf or Headless Chrome

November 22nd, 2018 / by api2pdf /

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 […]

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Debugging Amazon S3, Lambda, Timeouts, ContentOperationNotPermitted, wkhtmltopdf, and Headless Chrome

November 1st, 2018 / by api2pdf /

Intro You ever run into a bug that is so perplexing you don’t even know where to begin? I’d like to share a story that happened this week. As you may know, Api2Pdf runs on AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda is Amazon’s serverless compute service that lets you scale to countless requests very easily. Our two most […]

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Convert HTML to PDF with C# and .NET Core

October 18th, 2018 / by api2pdf /

Intro .NET Core (dotnetcore) is all the rage now and it truly is the future of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. It is cross-platform, lightweight, and wicked fast. Api2Pdf’s web portal is built on .NET Core. So we love it. However, libraries that work with PDF manipulation have been slow to roll out .NET Core compatible versions. […]

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FPDF Alternative for PHP for Generating PDFs

October 10th, 2018 / by api2pdf /

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 […]

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Merge PDFs together with Python on AWS Lambda

October 10th, 2018 / by api2pdf /

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, […]

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Free Bootstrap 4 HTML Template for Displaying Database Records to PDF

October 7th, 2018 / by api2pdf /

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 […]

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Adding a Watermark with WKHTMLTOPDF

September 5th, 2018 / by api2pdf /

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 […]

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