PDFCrowd Blog

Product updates, tips & tricks

We have released a new version of our API client libraries.

New:

  • Added the PdfToText API client that allows conversion of PDF documents to plain text.
  • Added watermark, background and PDF format options to the ImageToPdf API client.
  • Added a new 'single-page-fit-ex' mode to the setSmartScalingMode API method.
  • HTML to PDF online tool:
    • Added more readability related options and better support for lazy loaded resources.
    • A new Save as PDF bookmarklet, see tutorial.
  • Minor documentation changes in the API clients and the WordPress plugins:
    • API clients updated to 5.6.2
    • WordPress updated to 2.9.4

HTML to Image:

  • Fixed an error when the JPEG output height exceeds the maximum allowed JPEG height.

PDF to HTML:

  • Improved ability to convert large PDF files.
  • Introduced a new error code 484, which is returned in case of an unsupported PDF feature, typically a font type.