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:
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:
What would it look like to get a log of all document creation attempts for the first 7 days of 2015?.. Continue Reading
Whether you’re creating an eBook or a marketing one-page with fine print, footnotes are a necessity. With DocRaptor (powered by Prince), footnotes are easy to create and you can do it inline too!
Unfortunately, you’re out of luck if you’re using open-source tools such as wkhtmltopdf or PhantomJS. It’s possible to create HTML documents that look like they have footnotes, but you’ll need to add an extra footnotes section and split your footnotes from your content... Continue Reading
DocRaptor has fantastic support for modern HTML and CSS, but it’s easy to run into issues when you’re creating PDFs instead of web pages. Maybe you’re having a problem with a generated table of contents, setting the correct page size, or getting a troublesome table to align correctly. Our help center has the answers to those questions and more! .. Continue Reading
We are pleased to announce that Prince 10 is now available for all DocRaptor PDF customers. You can use the version attribute in your API calls, or simply change your default version to 10 to take advantage of new features and better performance today!
You can find your current default Prince version in on your settings page, right under your API key... Continue Reading
