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PDFreactor - The best engine to convert HTML to PDF in your web apps!

Printing with CSS. Typeset quality PDF. Web Standard Compliant.

PDFreactor is typically used for server-side conversion of HTML to PDF, ranging from dynamic data-driven documents (reports, invoices, forms, data sheets) for electronic distribution to complex and high-quality PDFs (catalogs, marketing collateral, technical documentation, journals) for print and electronic publishing.

Whether you want to save an HTML page as PDF or create a catalogue from your product database: Our conversion software is tailored specifically for high demands in rendering HTML to PDF in a time-saving way. Exporting HTML to PDF should not acquire a lot of manual adjustments. That is why PDFreactor has a wide range of time-saving functions that will streamline your PDF converting process.

Key features for high-quality PDF from HTML

  • tapeteHTML 5
    • Convert your HTML5 to PDF documents without additional pre-processing or clean-up. Supports all HTML5 elements.
  • JavaScript
    • Transfer JavaScript driven layouts to PDF. Support for HTML5 Canvas, HighCharts, amCharts, MathJax and other JavaScript libraries out of the box.
  • CSS3
    • Use cutting-edge CSS3 like calc, media queries, box-shadow, text-shadow, filter. Transform, rotate, scale, elements for converting HTML + CSS to PDF. Supports regions, running elements, Grid- and Flexible Box Layout.
  • Accessibility
    • PDFreactor supports the creation of tagged PDF documents in line with accessibility guidelines, including Section 508 and the Matterhorn protocol.
  • PDF/A
    • PDFreactor easily allows to create PDF/A (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2u, 3a, 3b and 3u) and PDF/UA compliant files for the long-term archiving of electronic documents.
  • Professional Printing
    • PDFreactor provides professional printing features like PDF/X, PDF/X-4p, baseline grids and spot colors. Print HTML to PDF and create documents with perfect typography.
  • W3C Standards
    • PDFreactor is based on the latest W3C standards for CSS 2.1, CSS 3, HTML and XML, providing the highest flexibility and interoperability.
  • Strong integration with PIM solutions



Product Type

API / SDK Windows MacOS Linux Server Command-line Developer/forensics tool Services Cloud / web service Subscription

PDF Type

PDF/A-1 PDF/A-2 PDF/A-3 PDF JavaScript PDF/X-1a PDF/X-3 PDF/X-4 Tagged PDF PDF/UA-1 PDF 1.7 (ISO 32000-1:2008)

Features

Convert to PDF from other formats Create PDF tags Add, review & markup annotations Insert, delete, move pages Page / Bates numbering Barcoding Optimize (compress PDF) File attachments Author forms JavaScript for PDF Validate PDF/A Validate PDF/UA Imposition
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