Bootstrap is the most popular front-end framework for developing websites. We see a lot of customers using Bootstrap to format invoices and reports while converting them from HTML to PDF with DocRaptor. However, there are several common issues you may run into when using Bootstrap 3 with DocRaptor:

Bootstrap is very opinionated in media print mode

In print mode, Bootstrap makes following adjustments:

• All columns become full-width
• All colors are removed
• All background shading is removed

These changes, while reasonable for physically printing a web page, may surprise you if you’re trying to make a PDF invoice or report... Continue Reading

DocRaptor is now available as a task within Kotive workflows! Kotive enables anyone – including non-technical people – to automate and control the flow of tasks within their business. Setting up your document does require some HTML knowledge, and you’ll be limited to making PDFs based on other Kotive integrations, but you no longer need to be a programmer to create basic PDFs with DocRaptor... Continue Reading

We are very excited to announce officially supported clients for 5 programming languages!

                    

These clients support 100% of our HTML to PDF and HTML to XLS API. They will be updated whenever we add new options. So you can follow the projects on GitHub to see when we make improvements.

• https://github.com/docraptor/docraptor-csharp
• https://github.com/docraptor/docraptor-java
• https://github.com/docraptor/docraptor-php
• https://github.com/docraptor/docraptor-python
• https://github.com/docraptor/docraptor-ruby

You can start using these clients today... Continue Reading

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

One of the most common documents generated by DocRaptor is a report, and what’s a report without an eye-catching chart or two? We’ve long supported charting libraries, like HighCharts, but today we’re taking another big (yet surprisingly simple) step forward with our HTML to PDF engine.

Modern JavaScript involves fetching assets asynchronously, filling in data as it arrives, and doing post-render transformations as needed by the page... Continue Reading

By popular request, you can now set separate billing information in DocRaptor if you’d like to quit forwarding the monthly invoice to Amy in accounting. You can also customize your invoice with the full address, company name, and VAT number if you’re into that kind of thing... Continue Reading

It’s been a while since we last talked about headers and footers in PDFs, and we’ve learned a lot about how best to use them in the interim. Here’s a list of best practices and gotchas, in no particular order... Continue Reading

If you’ve visited DocRaptor in the last few days, you probably noticed that we updated our privacy policy. Specifically, we’ve changed one line to reflect new options in how we store your documents.  Prior to this update, all data sent to us (and all the generated documents) were held on our server for up to 4 hours.  .. 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.

Today we are happy to announce support for API Access to Document Logs, which has long been available on the internal dashboard of DocRaptor. Our Document Listing API only worked for documents that created successfully, which was not ideal!

There are a lot of reasons you might want this, including but not limited to:

• success/failure rates of your document generation
• tags distribution against success rates
• easier DocRaptor white-labeling for agencies
• usage report for specific weeks/months/years

What would it look like to get a log of all document creation attempts for the first 7 days of 2015?.. Continue Reading