Next weekend we’re planning a server upgrade, which will bring us on Linode‘s NextGen architecture. Because of this there’s a planned service outage of 5-10 minutes on Saturday, July 6th on 6AM GMT. This is one of the most quiet moments for our service so hopefully nobody will be affected too much. What does this… Read more »
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Switching to FastSpring
Attention to all current and future subscribers: we’re switching to FastSpring as our new payment provider. We had been with BlueSnap for a while now and – when it was still Plimus – were quite happy with the service and payment fees. Since the merger (or acquisition or whatever it was) things have been going… Read more »
HTML to PDF API now supports merging of PDFs
Good news! We’ve just brought the merging functionality, which we recently introduced to the SDK, also to the API. This now allows you to take different sources of HTML and put them together into one big PDF, without having to do any HTML juggling. The merging functionality is quite useful for a lot of different… Read more »
Merging PDFs from multiple HTML documents
In certain situations you would like to create a PDF based on multiple URLs or on multiple HTML files. Or you may want to have a different layout for a certain amount of the pages then for the rest of PDF. In that case the new merge functionality comes in handy. The PDF merge functionality,… Read more »
Using CSS media type ‘print’ for your PDF
We just introduced a new feature to all our paid conversion services and that is the use of CSS media types. For those amongst you who don’t know what it is, w3schools explains it really well. Basically you can use them to prepare your website for better viewing depending on the device (or media) that… Read more »
Page breaking
One of the questions we regularly get is about page breaking. How does Webkit decide when the content is broken up into separate pages and how can you prevent that yourself? First of all – if you have a lot of content, which normally spans multiple pages, you have a few options. First of all… Read more »
HTML to PDF SDK – examples
This post is intended to be a ‘Quick Start’ for people who want to use our HTML to PDF SDK and are looking for some examples to start with. In our documentation you will also find quite some examples and when you download the library you will notice that it contains a file with example… Read more »
HTML to PDF API – examples
In this post we’ll show you a list of examples of using the HTML to PDF API. Each of these examples is intended as addition to the documentation, that explains all options. The HTML to PDF API works in all programming languages. So you can invoke it in C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, VB.NET or… Read more »
Save as PDF – examples
In this post we’ll show you a list of examples of using the ‘save as PDF’ functionality. Each of these examples is intended as addition to the documentation, that explains all options. The goal of our “save as PDF” service is to give website owners the possibility of adding a simple link to their pages… Read more »
PDF Showcase coming!
Right now we’re preparing a showcase of our PDF creation possibilities. The idea is to give a quick overview of all the possibilities that are different services offer through a gallery of PDFs. At the moment we’re thinking of showing examples of the following: page formats like A3, A4, Letter, custom page formats and single… Read more »