PDFreactor Features

Our performance scope to render HTML to PDF in the most effective way

Whether you want to save an HTML page as PDF or create a catalogue from your product database: Our conversion software is tailored specifically for high demands in rendering HTML to PDF in a time-saving way. Exporting HTML to PDF should not acquire a lot of manual adjustments. That is why PDFreactor has a wide range of time-saving functions that will streamline your PDF converting process.

With our powerful API you can integrate the software in your existing framework, no matter which programming language you use: HTML to PDF via C# & .NET, PHP, Java, Ruby or Python – the possibilities to create PDF from HTML are nearly endless. Inspect the structure and layout of PDFs generated with PDFreactor similar to browser’s development tools with our PDFreactor Inspector. Convince yourself of our diverse functions, which not only save you time, but also resources and costs in the long term.

Administration

The PDFreactor web service provides a RESTful monitoring interface, and allows to set API keys to authenticate clients. That way you do not only manage how to convert an HTML page to PDF but have full control over your PDF files.

Automatic Font Fall-Back

Automatic fallback to one or more specified fonts if a glyph cannot be found in the font used in the document you want to render from HTML to PDF.

CMYK Color Space

PDFreactor can convert to PDF files in the CMYK color space. All color keywords, as well as images can be translated into both RGB and CMYK.

Complex HTML to PDF via PIM

PDFreactor offers the most efficient way to create ready-to-print documents like catalogues and price lists to PIM users. Read more about the catalog software solution and the Pimcore PIM flag-ship projects to see the perfect match between PIM and PDFreactor to create PDF from HTML.

Digital Signature

When exporting the HTML to PDF, digitally sign your PDFs with a X.509 certificate and ensure that the document has not been tampered with after its creation.

Docker

PDFreactor supports cgroup based virtualization environments like Docker. A PDFreactor Docker image is available on Docker Hub. Find out more about how to convert HTML to PDF with Docker.

Encryption & Restrictions

Encrypt and secure PDF documents created from HTML to PDF with owner and user passwords. This also enables you to enforce various restrictions.

Exceeding Contents Detection

Log a warning if an element exceeds a page or the border of page content. Information about those elements can be retrieved programmatically. This reduces the susceptibility to errors when converting HTML to PDF significantly.

Generated Content

When exporting a PDF from HTML, use generated content to display cross references, page numbers, the title of the target chapter, numbered headings and more dynamically.

HTTP Authentication

Convert HTML to PDF that requires a password for its HTTP connections. The Basic and Digest authentication schemes are supported.

Hyperlinks & Bookmarks

When converting HTML to PDF, PDFreactor ensures hyperlinks from the source document, bookmarks for headings, and PDF metadata such as author, title, subject and keywords are being transferred to the target document.

Input

There is no limit for creating PDF from HTML with PDFreactor. Enhance your documents with SVG, MathML, bar codes and QR codes. Embed multimedia objects such as videos and Flash or integrate existing PDF files like images.

Internationalization

Change HTML to PDF for various target groups: PDFreactor supports RTL and LTR text, automatic Arabic shaping and a wide range of languages e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and others. Support for recto/verso and BiDi depending logical properties.

Layout

One bottleneck while converting an HTML file to PDF is the specific layout. When transforming HTML tables to PDF or creating multi-column layouts you can count on full support: Including automatic hyphenation, page numbers, headers and footers, footnotes, (page) floats, positioning, margins, padding, tables.

Merging & Overlaying

Merge documents with existing PDFs by appending or overlaying them. Place multiple pages on one sheet and rearrange the order of pages.

Printer Marks

Add printer marks incl. trim marks, bleed marks, registration marks, color bars to your converted files. Allow the content to bleed off the trim area through PDF page boxes. That way PDFreactor ensures you to convert HTML pages to PDF and achieve impeccable printing results.

Raster Image Output

Create raster images (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) from your HTML files. Generate additional thumbnails, previews and high-fidelity graphics (optional grayscale) when converting HTML files to PDF from your documents. Optional add-on.

Sessions, Headers & Cookies

Set arbitrary HTTP headers for all connections established by PDFreactor, or set cookies. This enables you to pass a session ID to PDFreactor.

Scalability

Natively supports 64bit on all operating systems incl. Windows Server, allowing you to allocate more memory for PDF converting and processing very large and complex documents. Supports session based load-balancing.

Shrink-to-fit

PDFreactor allows you to automatically or manually adjust the DPI value for pixels when rendering HTML to PDF to ensure elements with fixed width, such as images or tables, do not exceed the page.

Smart Pagination

When batch converting HTML to PDF you can say goodbye to manual efforts: All documents are automatically paginated. So page breaks do not slice through any images or lines of text. Optionally, you can control page breaks via CSS.

Styled Interactive PDF Forms

Convert HTML forms to PDF and produce complex interactive forms from HTML files. Interactive form elements can be fully styled via CSS to create PDF from HTML in a way that best suits the demands of your industry.

Table of Contents

Intuitively generate an automatic table of contents when converting your HTML document to PDF, including page numbers, leaders and links to the chapters.

Viewer Preferences

Control your PDF viewer’s appearance by setting viewer preferences in the PDF file. Hide parts of the viewer’s UI, adapt the page layout.

Web Fonts

Converting an HTML file to PDF you do not need to forgo on the aesthetics or your corporate design elements. Enhance your documents with beautiful fonts without having to install any fonts on the server or the user’s system.

Web Service

Provides configurable callback URLs for events during conversion. Send your document containing HTML and resources as self-contained asset package to the web service. Features a server side cache plugin.