Pdfcrowd Blog

New:

• Added the "User-Created Drawings" option in the "Content" conversion mode. It enables to capture user-created canvas drawings.
• Added the "Output Name" option. It enables to specify the output filename directly in the plugin settings. It can still be overwritten with a shortcode or a PHP function.

Fixes:

• Fixed UTF-8 output filenames in MS Edge.
• Fixed an error in "Send PDF via e-mail".

The new version brings new features, bug fixes and support for latest web standards.

We also released a new version of Pdfcrowd API client libraries (version 5.0.0) that use the new 20.10 converter. You can learn more about Pdfcrowd versioning.

New options available in version 20.10:

• setConverterVersion
• setLoadIframes
• setLocale
• setNoHeaderFooterHorizontalMargins
• setCssPageRuleMode
• setLayoutDpi
• setContentsMatrix
• setHeaderMatrix
• setFooterMatrix
• setDisablePageHeightOptimization
• setHeaderFooterCssAnnotation
• setMainDocumentCssAnnotation
• setBackgroundColor [html_to_image]
• libPdfcrowd.js
  • insertStyle accepts new argument "destination"

New:

• "Button Text Translation" option - allows using a translation for the button text.

Version 1.10.0

• New "Change on Mouse Over" option - highlights the button when the mouse pointer is hovering over it.
• Fixed the issue with an external link pointing to the plugin settings tab.

Version 1.9.1

• Fixed the issue with missing assets.

Version 1.9.0

• New "Conversion in Progress Indicator" option - a customizable visual indicator is shown when the conversion is in progress.
• Fixed the issue with the button appearence in MS Edge.

Version 1.8.1

• Improved the converted page URL detection.

Version 1.8.0

• Improved handling of lazy loaded images.
• Fixed the issue with the converted page URL when certain third party WP plugins are used.

Version 1.7.0

• Added a new value "Open PDF in a new browser tab" to the "Button Click Action" option.

Version 1.6.0

• Added support for parameters in the page URL.
• Added support for a missing protocol in links.
• Added function pdfcrowd_save_as_pdf($options) for direct Pdfcrowd API access.

Version 1.5.0

• Added HTML template rendering with custom JSON, XML, YAML and CSV data.

Version 1.4.1

• Added a button to reset plugin settings to default values.
• Fixed demo license usage.

The API enables rendering of HTML templates now. The template syntax is based on the Jinja template rendering engine.

You can interactively fiddle with the new functionality in this API Playground example.

New methods:

• setDataString()
• setDataFile()
• setDataFormat()
• setDataEncoding()
• setDataIgnoreUndefined()
• setDataAutoEscape()
• setDataTrimBlocks()
• setDataOptions()

You can find more information in our API documentation.

New:

• Added the "Content" conversion mode that converts the current HTML contents shown in the browser.
• Added an option to convert a local file with a shortcode or a function call.
• Minified JavaScript files for a faster page load.
• Fixed multi-line shortcode parameters.

The Pdfcrowd API playground can now generate source code for WordPress shortcodes and function calls.

New:

• Updated descriptions in the plugin settings.
• Added button creation mode flag.

New:

• libPdfcrowd.js
  • insertTableOfContents - automatic table of contents generation.
• API client libraries - it is now possible to load a watermark from a URL.
  • setPageWatermarkUrl
  • setMultipageWatermarkUrl
  • setPageBackgroundUrl
  • setMultipageBackgroundUrl

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.