HTML Template to PDF Benefits
You can create PDF from scratch or PDF template using the HTML Template to PDF API. With this API, you can create and re-use templates text objects, images, CSS and HTML5 styles, Javascript, and built-in barcodes (QR Code, Datamatrix, Code 128, Code 39, and many others), conditional logic, reusable content blocks (headers and footers), custom fonts.
Sample PDF output from advanced HTML template with barcodes:
pdfco-advanced-html-to-pdf-template-output.pdf
Handlebars & Mustache Template Support
PDF.co supports Handlebars and Mustache HTML templates. The Handlebars and Mustache’s HTML code contains special macros like {{Macro}}. These macros work as placeholders for data that you want to put in its place. You can also add barcodes using a macro: [[barcode:QR Code 12345]] or [[barcode:QR Code {{variable1}}]]
Custom Script Support
You can use the Custom Script to disable clickable links in your PDF output. You can also use it to hide elements by class name or id.
PDF Page Customization
The HTML Template to PDF API supports paper size, margin, and orientation customization. You can also add an optional header and footer information on every page.
Multiple Source Support
The API can generate PDF reports from a clean slate using JSON data or CSV data.
Web API Supports Multiple Languages
PDF.co platform can be used by software developers from programming languages such as PHP, Javascript, .NET and ASP.NET, C#, Java, Visual Basic, and many others. Find source code samples in our API documentation.
Business Automation Platforms Integrations
If you are not a developer, you can also easily automate your PDF operations via popular business automation platforms: Zapier, Make, Airtable, Salesforce, Google Apps Script, and 300+ more.
HTML Template to PDF Samples & Demo
In this demonstration, we will use a simple inline HTML template to generate a PDF. This HTML template has two macros {{variable1}} and {{variable2}} that we will fill with data from a JSON template. Below are the images of the source and output files.
Images of Source HTML template and Output PDF
Let’s go over the HTML Template to PDF parameters before we start coding.
Endpoint
| URL: | https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/html |
| Method: | POST |
profilesoptional. Must be a String. Set custom configuration. See profiles examples here
| Parameter | Description |
| html | required. HTML template with Mustache and Handlebars template. |
| margins | optional. Set CSS style margins. |
| orientation | optional. Set to Portrait or Landscape. |
| paperSize | optional. The letter is set by default. |
| printBackground | optional. Set to true by default |
| header | optional. Set to HTML for the header to be applied on every page at the header. |
| footer | optional. Set to HTML for the header to be applied on every page at the header. |
| templateData | optional. Set to string with JSON data for a template if your HTML is a template (Handlebars & Mustache style) |
| async | optional. Runs processing asynchronously. Returns jobId to use with job/check: true or false |
cURL Code Snippet
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.pdf.co/v1/pdf/convert/from/html' \
--header 'x-api-key: {{x-api-key}}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
"html": "Sample template: {{variable1}} and {{variable2}}",
"name": "result.pdf",
"margins": "5px 5px 5px 5px",
"paperSize": "Letter",
"orientation": "Portrait",
"printBackground": true,
"header": "",
"footer": "",
"async": false,
"encrypt": false,
"templateData": "{\"variable1\": \"Hello from variable1\", \"variable2\": \"Hello from variable 2\"}"
}'
Now it’s time to see the cURL code above in action.
HTML Template to PDF Output
Generate PDF from HTML Template using C# code here.
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