HTML to PDF API

Want to generate PDF invoices for your client? Simply create a HTML/CSS version of the invoice, and use the PDFace HTML to PDF API to convert this HTML document into a PDF file.

Getting Started

PDF-ace.com API is very easy to use. All you need to do is "POST" request parameters to a URL and get back PDF in response. See below for more details.

API End Point

"POST" your requests to the below URL. Make sure to always use HTTPS. Non-SSL requests will be rejected.

https://apibox1.pdface.net/index.php/v1/api

Authenticate API Calls

Each API call needs to include a "hash" POST parameter. To generate a hash, you will need:

1. API Key
2. Hash Key

<?php
$api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY";
$hash_key = "YOUR_API_HASH_KEY";
$hash = sha1($api_key . $hash_key);
?>

API Credentials

Follow the below steps to generate new API key/secret:

1. Login to your account and navigate to "API Keys" tab.
2. Click on "Generate new API Key" button.
3. Input name and click on "Add API Key" button.

Example

<?php
$api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY";
$hash_key = "YOUR_API_HASH_KEY";
$hash = sha1($api_key . $hash_key);

$params = [
	"key" => $api_key,
	"hash" => $hash,
	"type" => "html",
	"data" => "<h1>Hello World!</h1>",
	"title" => "PDF-ace.com HTML to PDF API Example",
	"orientation" => "Landscape"
	];

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://apibox1.pdface.net/index.php/v1/api");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);
$pdf_response = curl_exec($ch);

$response_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
$error_str = curl_error($ch);

curl_close($ch);

if ($response_code == 200) {
	//Save PDF response to a file
	file_put_contents("hello_world.pdf", $pdf_response);
}else {
	echo "Error: $pdf_response";
}
?>

Request Parameters

List of all request parameters available to the API. You can use these request parameters to control the PDF document generated by the API.

<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p><strong>Welcome</strong> to PDF-ace.com</p>