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data.json Edit any field. The page follows.

Company name

Invoice #

Due date

Line items

Notes

The data you typed, as the request that renders it.

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INVOICE

No. INV-2026-003

Due Nov 30, 2026

From

Acme Corp

123 Business Ave
San Francisco, CA 94102

Bill to

Globex Corporation

742 Evergreen Terrace
Springfield, IL 62701

Description	Qty	Price	Amount

Subtotal$775.00

Total due$775.00

Payment due within 30 days. Thank you!

Acme Corp · [email protected]Page 1 of 1

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Why not print HTML with headless Chrome?

Puppeteer, Playwright and wkhtmltopdf turn a web page into a PDF. An invoice that runs to three pages was never a web page.

When Chrome is the right tool: the document genuinely is a web page — you are archiving live pages, or the layout depends on JavaScript that runs at render time.

Compared in detail: Puppeteer, wkhtmltopdf, WeasyPrint, DocRaptor, PDFMonkey, all 15

Headless Chrome compared with pdfs.build
	Headless Chrome	pdfs.build
What you run	A Chrome process per render, with a pool and warm-up to hide its cold start.	One HTTPS request. There is no browser to run.
What you author	HTML, CSS and JavaScript, printed by headless Chrome.	A design with a schema, edited in plain English.
What decides page breaks	Chrome's print emulation, applied to a page built for a screen.	The design states them; the engine composes to them.
As the data grows	Chrome's print rules and your print CSS; verify the output with representative data.	The ordinary case. Each design records what it does.
Next quarter	A Chrome release can shift text metrics, and the layout with them.	The same template and the same data give the same document.

Your AI agent can do every step

Connect the hosted MCP server once. Then your agent designs, checks, publishes and renders templates from the chat you already work in.

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It signs in with OAuth, so there is no API key to paste, and it comes with every plan. Any client that supports remote MCP servers can connect.

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Start from 170+ designs, not a blank page

Invoices, quotes, statements, certificates, packing slips. Each one is built to hold up when real data replaces the sample: long tables carry their header onto the next page, and a signature block never splits.

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Start from a .docx

Import the Word file you already send, and keep editing it here in plain English.
Every edit is a checkpoint

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Embed the editor and its AI assistant, so your customers design their own documents. How embedding works

More on how templates are defined and the dynamic fields and reflow that keep them intact.

Generate PDFs with a single API call

Pass your template ID and a JSON data payload. Get back a rendered PDF in milliseconds. No headless browsers, no complex setup.

RESTful endpoints — Standard HTTP API with OpenAPI documentation
Webhook notifications — Get notified when generation completes
Batch generation — Render thousands of documents in parallel

A fuller walkthrough is on the PDF generation API page.

View API reference

~220ms median

const response = await fetch('https://api.pdfs.build/v2/organizations/org_abc/templates/invoice-primary/render', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${API_KEY}`,
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    data: {
      company: 'Acme Corp',
      items: [
        {  name: 'Consulting', qty: 3, price: 150 },
        {  name: 'Development', qty: 1, price: 200 }
      ],
      due_date: '2025-02-01'
    }
  })
})

const pdf = await response.arrayBuffer()

curl -X POST \
  https://api.pdfs.build/v2/organizations/org_abc/templates/invoice-primary/render \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "data": {
      "company": "Acme Corp",
      "items": [
        {  "name": "Consulting", "qty": 3, "price": 150 },
        {  "name": "Development", "qty": 1, "price": 200 }
      ],
      "due_date": "2025-02-01"
    }
  }' \
  -o invoice.pdf

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