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New: Pipeline 9 with color emoji 😉 and Prince 14

Today, we’re releasing Pipeline 9 with support for Prince 14, a major upgrade to our HTML-to-PDF conversion engine. As a reminder, to avoid any breaking changes, we never automatically upgrade your documents. Existing users will need to test and upgrade to Pipeline 9 in order to use Prince 14.

You can change your default pipeline in your account settings page or via the pipeline parameter in your API calls... Continue Reading

New: Pipeline 8 with CSS Variables and Prince 13

Today, we’re releasing Pipeline 8 with support for Prince 13, a major upgrade to our HTML-to-PDF conversion engine. As a reminder, to avoid any breaking changes, we never automatically upgrade your documents. Existing users will need to test and upgrade to Pipeline 8 in order to use Prince 13.

You can change your default pipeline in your account settings page, or via the pipeline parameter in your API calls... Continue Reading

New: Hosted Documents Add-On

We’ve recently launched a significant new upgrade to DocRaptor: document hosting

Until now, DocRaptor’s HTML-to-PDF API returns a file that you are responsible for storing or sharing. With hosted documents, we’ll store and host the document on your behalf at a completely unbranded URL for as long as you want us to, or within the limits you specify... Continue Reading

Saying Goodbye to the First DocRaptor Pipelines

DocRaptor is over 10 years old, and we’ve supported our original Pipeline version for the last 10 years, by running it side by side with later releases. Our newer Pipelines include many upgrades and bug fixes, including CSS Flexbox support. 

As we look forward to Pipeline 8, it’s clear that supporting those early Pipelines is no longer practical... Continue Reading

New: Pipeline 7 with Flexbox Support and Prince 12

Today, we’re releasing Pipeline 7 with support for Prince 12, a major upgrade to our HTML-to-PDF conversion engine. As a reminder, to avoid any breaking changes, we never automatically upgrade your documents. Existing users will need to test and upgrade to Pipeline 7 in order to use Prince 12.

You can change your default pipeline in your account settings page, or via the pipeline parameter in your API calls... Continue Reading

Why Social Ink loves DocRaptor’s HTML-to-PDF API

Social Ink is a full-service graphic and web design and development shop in the middle of Brooklyn’s tech triangle. For almost 12 years they’ve worked with nonprofit, social justice, and educational organizations who do good work in NYC, the US, and internationally. Here’s what they had to say about DocRaptor:

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Improved Document Debugging Tools

At DocRaptor, we’ve always strived to help you make perfect PDF and Excel documents. Over the years, we’ve built up several internal tools to help debug document issues. We’ve now integrated that functionality directly into the document log, so you’ll have better visibility into conversion problems. Specifically, the improved document log lets you:

  • Download your document input and output, as well as the HTML rendered by JavaScript processing
  • See any asset loading errors
  • See where in the generation pipeline a document failed
  • See the API parameters submitted with your request

We also released a new API parameter that logs JavaScript console messages, instead of causing a document failure... Continue Reading

DocRaptor PDF Engine Updated to Prince 11.2

Today we are releasing the latest update to DocRaptor’s PDF engine; Pipeline 6 is now on Prince 11.2.  This upgrade is the new default and anyone using Pipeline 6 will begin using the new version automatically.  New improvements with this release include but are definitely not limited to:

  • Much improved Opacity support for CSS
  • New @prince-overlay @page region for use with watermarks and other overlays
  • Support for SVG masks
  • Substantial improvements to the Prince JavaScript engine
  • Various CSS and SVG bug fixes and performance enhancements

You can read the full Prince 11.2 release notes here.  .. Continue Reading

Upgraded HTML to PDF Rendering Engine: Prince 11

We’ve just released support for Prince 11, latest version of the engine we use for rendering HTML to PDF. To upgrade, you’ll need to use DocRaptor Pipeline #6.

You can change your default pipeline in your account settings page, or via the pipeline parameter in your API calls. Using the account setting is more convenient, while the parameter lets you test your documents before upgrading your entire account... Continue Reading