PDFCrowd Blog

We released official Pdfcrowd WordPress plugins. The plugins are powered by our API and come with a full range of options.

• Check out the plugin documentation for details.
• WordPress.org plugin directory links:
  • Save as PDF - Save web pages and HTML to PDF.
  • Save as Image - Save web pages and HTML to various image formats.

New:

• The maximum generated image width increased to 65,000 pixels [HTML to Image].
• Increased the connection timeout in the PHP and Ruby client libraries.
• Added the setUseCurl() method to the PHP client library.

Fixed:

• UTF-8 encoded input bytes objects are handled correctly now.
• Input file name can contain non-ASCII characters.

New:

• Added new methods to the PDF to PDF converter
  • Watermark and Background
    • setPageWatermark()
    • setMultipageWatermark()
    • setPageBackground()
    • setMultipageBackground()
  • PDF Format
    • setLinearize()
    • setEncrypt()
    • setUserPassword()
    • setOwnerPassword()
    • setNoPrint()
    • setNoModify()
    • setNoCopy()
  • Viewer Preferences
    • setPageLayout()
    • setPageMode()
    • setInitialZoomType()
    • setInitialPage()
    • setInitialZoom()
    • setHideToolbar()
    • setHideMenubar()
    • setHideWindowUi()
    • setFitWindow()
    • setCenterWindow()
    • setDisplayTitle()
    • setRightToLeft()

New:

• Our .NET API client library now supports the following .NET platforms:
  • .NET Framework 2.0+
  • .NET Standard 2.0+
  • .NET Core 2.0+

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.