Author: Team DocRaptor

Ullstein is a German book publisher and part of the Swedish Media Group Bonnier SA. One of their international bestsellers was Gut by Guila Enders. Every year they publish around 350 new printed books and 500 e-books. They also maintain a book review platform in both German (Vorablesen) and English (BookishFirst)... Continue Reading

Social Ink is a full-service graphic and web design and development shop in the middle of Brooklyn’s tech triangle. For almost 12 years they’ve worked with nonprofit, social justice, and educational organizations who do good work in NYC, the US, and internationally. Here’s what they had to say about DocRaptor:

How do you use DocRaptor?

When you view an ordinary web page, many errors may occur without your knowledge. The page itself may fail to load, or resources (such as images and stylesheets) may fail to download, be sent using bad encoding, have unknown MIME types, or any number of other common errors.

As long as the page loads, your browser attempts to display the page and it ignores any errored images or stylesheets... Continue Reading

Creating PDFs with Drupal is now effortless with the DocRaptor Drupal PDF add-on for the Print module. DocRaptor is a commercial HTML to PDF API built specifically for making PDFs. Advantages of using DocRaptor over using open-source libraries include:

• Support & Document Log: PDF generation is tricky, especially with parsing engines that are designed for making web pages, not PDFs.

PDFreactor is a fantastic HTML to PDF engine, and provides several features that DocRaptor does not yet support. However, DocRaptor has an entirely different pricing and delivery model that many organizations find a better fit. Here’s a summary of the differences between DocRaptor and PDFreactor:

1. Do you want PDF forms, thumbnails, digital signatures, or 508 accessibility compliance?

PhantomJS is a “headless browser” (a web browser, just for programming, without a visible interface). Exporting screen captures to PDF, PNG, and JPG is just one of many PhantomJS features. DocRaptor uses PrinceXML, an engine designed specifically for creating PDFs. PhantomJS is built on the WebKit browser, as does the other major open-source PDF generator, wkhtmltopdf... Continue Reading

From our research, wkhtmltopdf is the best open-source HTML-to-PDF tool. It is one of the few open-source projects built solely for HTML-to-PDF generation and uses a specifically modified version of the WebKit browser engine.

wkhtmltopdf is used inside many popular language-specific tools such as PHP’s Snappy, Ruby’s wicked_pdf and pdfkit... Continue Reading