This container runs a very basic web service which receives HTML or XML input
via a HTTP VERB and then returns PDF content as rendered by the excellent
Prince XML tool.
The tool used to produce a beautiful PDF from HTML and CSS.
See the User Guide to learn about the features available.
The web service expects the HTML content you wish to render as the body of a HTTP POST request.
On success the response will be a 200 OK with the body containing the PDF
data. The Content-Type header will be set to application/pdf.
If there was an error the response will be 400 Bad Request and the body will
be textual output detailing the error encountered. The Content-Type header will
be set to text/plain in this case.
You can alter the behaviour of prince by providing options as HTTP headers.
Available options are listed below with their corresponding header.
BASE_URLused to pass the--baseurl
If you have suggestions for other options please create an issue or implement it and create a pull request.
A simple example client using curl:
curl -H "BASE_URL: http://example.com" http://html2pdf:9999/ --data-binary @in.html -o out.pdf