PDFGate

About PDFGate

PDFGate's HTML to PDF API converts HTML content or web page URLs into PDF documents using the Chrome rendering engine, supporting full CSS and JavaScript so output matches browser rendering. It handles responsive layouts across device sizes and renders pages built with frameworks such as React, Angular, Tailwind, and Vue.js without additional setup.

The API supports creating fillable PDFs by converting standard HTML input elements into interactive PDF fields, including text fields, date fields, dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, multi-select lists, text areas, and digital signature fields, with control over field appearance and validation. It can be combined with other endpoints such as Flatten PDF or Extract Data for form-processing workflows.

Additional parameters allow control over page size, custom width and height, orientation, scale, headers and footers, margins, page ranges, timeout, render delay, and image loading. The product is aimed at developers integrating PDF generation into applications, with client SDKs available for Node.js, Java, C#, PHP, and Python. According to figures on the page, the API processes over 720,000 documents monthly for more than 1,300 developers, with an average processing time of 1.6 seconds and 99.9% uptime.

Key features

• Convert HTML strings or public URLs into PDFs using a Chrome rendering engine
• Supports full CSS, JavaScript, and responsive layouts for pixel-perfect output
• Works out of the box with frameworks like React, Angular, Tailwind, and Vue.js
• Creates fillable PDF forms with text fields, dropdowns, checkboxes, and digital signature fields
• Custom headers, footers, margins, page size, orientation, and scale controls
• Advanced rendering options including lazy loading, custom JS/CSS injection, and page delays

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