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We have released a new version of our Save as PDF and Save as Image WordPress plugins.

New:

  • Added the "Indicator Timeout" option to set the maximum time the progress indicator is displayed. 

Changed:

  • The "HTTP Auth User Name", "HTTP Auth Password", "Cookies", "Fail On Main URL Error" and "Fail On Any URL Error" options are taken into account in the Upload conversion mode.
  • Minor source code optimization.

Fixed:

  • Fixed saving of the plugin options.
  • Minor fix of the progress indicator.

New:

We added new methods to identify HTML documents stored in the input archive. Use these methods if the input archive contains multiple HTML documents.

We added new methods related to PDF metadata.

   HTML to PDF:

   PDF to PDF supports the same methods as HTML to PDF:

Fixed:

  • [Ruby] Fixed handling of UTF-8 options and binary input files.

New:

  • Added the "Extract Meta Tags" option, which extracts meta information from the input HTML document and adds it to the output PDF.
  • Added the "Hide parameters" button in the plugin admin settings.

Changes:

  • The default value of "Conversion Mode" has changed to "URL".

New:

  • New numeral formats available in header and footer:
    • Eastern Arabic, Bengali, Devanagari, Thai, Chinese, Chinese formal, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean.
  • pdfcrowd-body class is set on the <body> element which allows conversion specific CSS styling.

Fixed:

  • Fixed strings in auto-generated Python code in the API playground.