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Generate Hundreds of PDFs with One API Call

Use the pdfs.build batch render API to generate up to 500 PDFs from one template in a single request, get one webhook when they are all done, and download every document.

How to Generate PDFs from JSON in Next.js 15 (App Router & Server Actions)

A practical guide to generating dynamic PDFs from JSON data in Next.js 15. Avoid heavy Chromium serverless crashes by calling a Typst REST API instead, with a median render of about 220ms.

How to Build an In-App PDF Editor with an Embedded Document Editor API

A complete architectural guide to building a white-label in-app document editor in your React SaaS. Learn how to mint tenant-scoped session tokens, embed @pdfsbuild/react, and render user-designed PDFs programmatically.

From Word Doc to PDF API

Your documents already exist as .docx files. How pdfs.build turns one into a Typst template in two deliberate steps: a faithful static conversion first, then chat-driven parameterization into a JSON-to-PDF endpoint.

How Our Template Agent Fixes Its Own Compile Errors

An LLM edits Typst code, a JSON schema, and sample data together. Here is the repair loop that turns plausible model output into documents that always compile: deterministic triggers, bounded fixes, and a compiler with the last word.

Keeping Three Typst Engines in Lockstep

pdfs.build compiles Typst in three places: a Rust publish gate, a Node server that renders the delivered PDFs, and WASM in the browser for live preview. A war story about what happens when they drift apart, and the rules that keep them aligned.

Typst vs LaTeX for Generating Documents from Data

Most Typst vs LaTeX comparisons are about writing papers. This one is about the other job: programmatically generating invoices, reports, and certificates from data, where the trade-offs look very different.

Why We Don't Render PDFs With a Headless Browser

Most PDF APIs are a headless Chrome with an endpoint in front of it. Here is why pdfs.build compiles documents with a typesetting engine instead, what that buys you when the data grows, and what you give up.

How to Generate PDFs from JSON Data with an API

A developer guide to generating dynamic PDF documents from JSON data. Compare approaches (HTML-to-PDF, PDF libraries, template engines), see code examples, and learn how to set up a template-based PDF rendering pipeline.

The pdfs.build MCP Server: PDF Generation for Any AI Agent

An MCP server that exposes PDF template authoring and rendering as native tools, so Claude or any MCP-compatible agent can produce documents without integration code.

Generate PDFs Programmatically with the REST API

Learn how to render templates with your data payload and integrate PDF generation into any stack using the pdfs.build REST API.

Getting Started with pdfs.build

From sign-up to your first generated PDF in under five minutes. Here's everything you need to know to hit the ground running.