🚨 HTML2PDF Deprecated [UPDATE + ALTERNATIVES]

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Just to be clear:

  • if we need to send more 2048 characters in URI it’s not possible. Exactly we must do a call api to generate long PDF.
    One update to send and one update to store result back to Glide plus some service to proceed api request.
    Or use 5 updates with integration which itself have a cost.
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Thanks for the heads up! Will look into this. Got it working for now

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Thanks a bunch!

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@david

Could Glide host this HTML to PDF Function? Like a column that transfers HTML to PDF for x updates

This way helps users & glide in 3 ways or more

  • Lot of Glide devs don’t need to pay/learn how to use external integrations
  • This solves PDF generation for a lot of people quickly and easily.
  • Instant Generation and updates of their PDF’s

Users want it so bad they make all this effort and pay 150$ for this glide tutorial

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Glide already supports both PDFMonkey and DocsAutomator.

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Currently i’m facing the same issue.
Is the latest link cannot be used anymore?
It come out like this

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Appreciated if someone can help me

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Hi, biha!
For me, currently, this link works well with short uri
pdfwizard.onrender.com

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I agree with you, but I think the main idea of this method is the lack of updates.

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if i’m using this one,
this will come out

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image906×735 13.4 KB

and if i reload few times, this will come out

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image1916×376 8.21 KB

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Yes, we cant use long uri with this technoque, use integration in this case. Url box works well

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Have you tried PDF Generation | Transform HTML Using Custom JS on Make.com ?

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But this is happen recently right? All the while im using this method for so long.

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I don’t know, may be that service see many long requests and going to reduce acceptable length. All service, evet its free have a cost for them for each run.

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But how to host the code actually?

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I just uploaded the file (index.html) with this code 🚨 HTML2PDF Deprecated [UPDATE + ALTERNATIVES] to a personal host and it works with short requests.

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Hello , need clarification. so no solution for this thing for Method 2?

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If you insist on using this method, you can follow the steps in my thread above. My method successfully prints 16425 characters. Let me know if you succeed.

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Hey @Himaladin - do you mind expanding on this? Would love to find a way to exceed the 2048 character limit if possible

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Hi @Mauricio_Gonzalez, the process is simple as I mentioned above. You can host the code on Netlify, and of course, you will get a 414 error message if you try to print a long text directly. To overcome this, I simply added an additional button labeled “Test Printing” containing short content/messages. Surprisingly, this action can trigger the printing of longer content as long as it does not exceed the aforementioned limit. You can call it a hack, but I prefer to call it warming up :wink:. Hope this helps.

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Ah, this is very helpful - thanks so much!

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