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Typefold

Introduction

Typefold turns HTML, or a template plus JSON data, into PDF and Excel files. Your application calls its HTTP API with an API key and gets the finished file in the response or from a background render. Your team writes and previews templates in Studio, a web app that also manages API keys, teammates and webhooks.

What it is good for

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Documents your application produces again and again from data:

  • Invoices, receipts and e-invoices with an embedded XML file.
  • Statements and reports, as a PDF or as a real .xlsx workbook.
  • Tickets, certificates, labels and letters.
  • Archival and accessible PDFs (PDF/A and PDF/UA).
  • Short email and SMS texts, written in the same template language.

It is a poor fit for turning arbitrary web pages into PDFs: it is not a browser, so it does not run the page’s JavaScript and supports its own set of CSS. See supported CSS and what is not supported.

Hosted or self-hosted

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The API, Studio and templates work the same in both.

  • Hosted. Sign in to Studio, create a workspace and an API key. Nothing to install.
  • Self-hosted. Run Typefold on your own server, so documents and templates never leave your network. It needs a license key to render. See install.

Where to go next

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