Pdfcrowd Blog

New:

• Added the ContentArea option which enables to specify a web page area to be converted.
  • setContentArea()
  • setContentAreaX()
  • setContentAreaY()
  • setContentAreaWidth()
  • setContentAreaHeight()

New:

• Added the setSmartScalingMode() method to the HTML to PDF API.

Fixed:

• Single page landscape PDFs were not handled correctly.

New:

• Added the setScaleFactor() method to the HTML to Image API.

Fixed:

• Java API client: the syntax of the last delimiter in multipart messages was incorrect.

New:

• Added the setOnLoadJavascript() method.

We added new methods that allow to specify image compression and DPI:

• setConvertImagesToJpeg()
• setJpegQuality()
• setImageDpi()

Fixes:

• Trailing blank pages were not discarded when a non-default PDF page background color was used.
• PDF was not linearized correctly when viewer preferences were set.

New:

• Added the setClientCertificate() method.
• Added the setClientCertificatePassword() method.
• Added the setHttpProxy() method.
• Added the setHttpsProxy() method.
• Added the setPageBackgroundColor() method.

Fixes:

• Python API client: correct handling of custom string classes, e.g. SafeText in Django.
• Converter: using the 'pdfcrowd-remove' and 'pdfcrowd-hide' CSS classes with the setElementToConvert() method works correctly now.

• Mobile friendly web.
• The online conversion form offers more customization settings.
• Added example integrations of our API with several web frameworks.
• API client libraries:
  • .NET client is now available on NuGet.
  • Node.js: enhanced error reporting in default handlers.
  • PHP: autodetect availability of file_get_contents and cURL.

• We released an API client library for the Go language. The library supports API v2.
• We fixed an issue with large PDFs caused by suboptimal image encoding.

Changes:

• added the setTag() method
• the Java client library can run on Android

Changes:

• Use a fallback if cURL is not found.