PDF generation API

Invoices, certificates, reports. One POST away.

The PDF generation API for developers — render invoices, certificates and reports from reusable templates with one REST call. Custom fonts, multi-page, signed URLs. No headless Chrome, no wkhtmltopdf.

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30 free credits · no credit card · custom fonts supported

No browser to babysit

Retire Puppeteer, print CSS and wkhtmltopdf. The render engine is our problem now — you make one HTTP call.

Multi-page by design

Reports, programs, contracts — every page parameterized, rendered as a single PDF document.

Your type, pixel-perfect

Upload TTF, OTF or WOFF — your brand type renders exactly as designed, on every page.

Documents that deliver themselves

Signed time-limited URLs for sensitive files, or render straight into your own S3, R2 or Drive.

Developer experience

Set the format to pdf. That’s the whole migration.

Same render API, same SDKs as images — pass your document data as modifications and get back a PDF URL. Multi-page templates render as one document automatically.

import { Orshot } from 'orshot';
const orshot = new Orshot(process.env.ORSHOT_API_KEY);

const { data } = await orshot.renderFromStudioTemplate({
  templateId: 1234,
  modifications: {
    recipient_name: 'Zara Adeyemi',
    title: 'Certificate of Excellence',
    date: 'Mar 6, 2026',
  },
  response: { type: 'url', format: 'pdf' },
});

// data.content → the rendered PDF URL
Works withNo-code, code, and AI agents.
ZapierZapierMakeMaken8nn8nAirtableAirtableMCP ServerMCP ServerGoogle SheetsGoogle SheetsAll integrations
Design

Design the document once. Every render fills itself in.

Build invoices, certificates and one-pagers in Orshot Studio like any other design — A4 and custom sizes, schedule tables, stat blocks, seals. Mark a layer dynamic and it becomes a field in your API call.

  • A4 and custom document sizes with full layout control
  • Custom fonts — TTF, OTF, WOFF render pixel-perfect in PDF
  • Brand kit locks logos, colors and type across every document
  • Import existing designs from Canva or Figma
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Integrate

The working request, one click from the dashboard.

Every template has a quick-connect sheet — your API key and template ID pre-filled, format switched to PDF, the exact request body ready to tweak and run. Copy it as cURL, an SDK snippet or an n8n node.

  • Full request body pre-filled — tweak values, run it from the sheet
  • Switch the output format to PDF with one dropdown
  • Same template connects to n8n, Make, Zapier or the MCP server
  • Run a test render before you've written a line of code
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Production

One template. A thousand personalized documents.

Loop your data through the same template — every certificate, invoice and report lands in a searchable render log with preview and source. The same engine powers automated image generation across the whole content automation platform.

  • Batch render N documents from one JSON array
  • Every render logged with preview, format and timestamp
  • Signed URLs for tamper-proof, time-limited delivery
  • Render to your own S3, R2, Dropbox or Google Drive
Who it's for

One PDF API. Every document your product owes.

For developers

Retire the PDF stack

Invoices, receipts, statements — render them from a template instead of maintaining headless Chrome, print stylesheets and a render queue. One endpoint, typed SDKs.

For founders

Billing documents from day one

Branded invoices and receipts that generate themselves on every payment — wired up in an afternoon, no document pipeline to build or design hire to wait on.

For automation engineers

Certificates from a sheet

Pipe rows from Google Sheets or Airtable through n8n, Make or Zapier — a personalized certificate or contract per row, delivered to inboxes automatically.

For marketers

Lead magnets without the design queue

One-pagers, event programs, branded reports — swap the copy per campaign and render. Every document stays locked to brand fonts and colors.

Capabilities

Everything a document pipeline needs, built in.

Multi-page rendering, batch generation, secure delivery, storage — the pieces you'd otherwise assemble yourself ship with the API.

SDKs for every stack

Node, Python, Ruby and PHP. One method call to render a PDF.

Multi-page documents

Multi-page templates render as one PDF with per-page dynamic data.

PDF rendering from templates

Design the document once, render with dynamic data forever.

Dynamic URLs

Render PDFs from URL parameters — no API call needed.

Bring your own storage

Pipe generated PDFs straight into your S3, R2, Dropbox or Google Drive.

No-code automation

Generate PDFs from Zapier, Make, n8n or Airtable — no code required.

Start generating. Your first PDF in 5 minutes.

Free plan includes 30 credits. No credit card, no design team, no wrangling wkhtmltopdf.

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