Save as PDF WordPress Plugin

The plugin adds the "Save as PDF" button to your WordPress web site. The button allows to save a web page as PDF or send it by email in one click.

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Invoice

Newsletter
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License

The plugin runs in a demo mode by default, you do not need to register to try it out. The demo mode is fully functional, it just adds a watermark to the output PDF.

If you want to remove the watermark, you can purchase our API license and set your Pdfcrowd username and API key in the plugin settings.

A single API license can be used for both our WordPress plugins on multiple web sites. The API license also allows to use our Conversion API directly.

Preview

To get a quick idea of what the plugin output will look like, enter a web page or upload an HTML file using the form below. It will generate several plugin output previews with different settings. You can then choose the best one and configure the plugin using the respective settings.

You can also interactively explore all plugin settings in our API Playground.

Getting Started

There are three ways to add the button to your web site.

Automatic

The button is added to your pages automatically after the plugin is installed. On the Button Look section in the plugin settings, you can can select the pages to which you want to add the button.

Shortcode

You can add the button with a plain or block shortcode.

• [save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd] - Saves the entire web page as PDF.
• [block_save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd] - Saves just the enclosed code block as PDF. To style the block, include CSS rules inside the shortcode.

The examples below show how to use the shortcodes and override the defaults set in the plugin settings.

<h3>Save the print version of the page</h3>

The button is put in the middle
[save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd \
    use_print_media=1 \
    output_name='inline.pdf' \
    button_text='Save printable version to PDF']
of this sentence.


<h3>Save the screen version of the page</h3>

[save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd \
    use_print_media=0 \
    output_name='browser.pdf' \
    button_text='Save browser page to PDF']


<h3>Save only a code block</h3>

[block_save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd \
    output_name='just_div.pdf' \
    button_text='Save just a part of the page' \
    page_size='letter' \
    button_background_color='green' \
    button_alignment='left']
<style>
 .invoice {
     font-size: 150%;
 }
</style>
<div class="invoice">
 Save this div and its descendants only.
</div>
[/block_save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd]


<h3>Convert any web page</h3>

[save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd \
    url='https://wikipedia.org' \
    output_name='wikipedia.pdf' \
    button_text='Save Wikipedia as PDF']

PHP Function

The conversion button can be added directly from your PHP code with this helper function:

create_save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd_button($options = array())

The $options argument is an array containing settings which override the defaults set in the plugin settings. An example:

echo create_save_as_pdf_pdfcrowd_button(array(
         'page_size' => 'Letter',
         'button_text' => 'Save as Letter'
));

Server-initiated conversion

The plugin offers a PHP function that runs the conversion synchronously. This may be useful if your want to initiate a conversion based on an event other than a plugin button click.

pdfcrowd_save_as_pdf($options = array())

The $options argument is an array containing conversion settings independent of the settings set on the plugin settings page. It must contain at least your Pdfcrowd username and the API key. An example:

<?php
    $output = pdfcrowd_save_as_pdf(array(
        'username' => '',
        'api_key' => '',
        'page_size' => 'Letter',
        'url' => 'https://www.example.com/'
    ));
    if(!is_wp_error($output)) {
        echo $output;
    }
?>

Common Customizations

The table below lists the most common customizations.

Troubleshooting

• Refer to the API Status Codes page if the API returns an error.
• You can use Debug Log option to get detailed info about the conversion, such as load errors, load times, browser console output, etc.
• Check the FAQ.
• You can use our JavaScript library to resolve rendering problems, such as missing content or blank pages.
  Just use Custom Javascript option with libPdfcrowd.highlightHtmlElements method call to visualize all HTML elements. See the backgrounds example , borders example and helper JavaScript library documentation.
• Contact us if you need help or are missing a feature.

Option Reference

Refer to the Save as PDF WordPress Plugin Reference for a description of all options.