The Typsetter Blog

3 methods to generate PDFs from Airtable data: Zapier, Make.com, and Airtable Scripting. Automate invoices, certificates, and contracts from your existing base.

Build no-code workflows for PDF generation with Make.com. Google Form to invoice, Stripe to receipt, CRM to contract. Includes a Make vs Zapier vs n8n comparison.

Compare Gotenberg, Stirling-PDF, Carbone, and WeasyPrint with cloud APIs like Typsetter. Cost at different volumes, maintenance, scaling, and honest recommendations.

Query your database, send data to Typsetter API, get PDFs. Full Node.js + PostgreSQL and Python + MySQL examples with batch processing and scheduling.

Step-by-step tutorial with code examples: generate invoices, reports, and certificates from Node.js. Includes SDK setup, batch generation, webhook integration, and a Puppeteer migration guide.

Generate PDFs from Python with the Typsetter API. Includes requests examples, pandas batch generation, Flask/FastAPI integration, and a side-by-side comparison with ReportLab.

Looking for HTML to PDF API alternatives? Compare Puppeteer, wkhtmltopdf, Prince, and template-based APIs. Learn why template-first beats HTML-first for document generation.

Head-to-head comparison of three popular PDF APIs. Speed benchmarks, pricing at different volumes, template systems, integrations, and honest recommendations for each use case.

HTML-to-PDF tools like Puppeteer are slow and fragile. Learn why Typst generates PDFs 10× faster with pixel-perfect output, and see a side-by-side code comparison.

An honest, technical comparison of the three most popular PDF generation approaches. We benchmark render speed (Typsetter wins at 340ms average vs 4.2s for Puppeteer), compare template systems, hosting costs, maintenance overhead, and developer experience. Includes sample code for all three.

A complete walkthrough for setting up your first Zapier automation with Typsetter. Covers connecting your account, choosing a trigger (new Stripe payment, new Airtable record, new form submission), mapping data to template variables, and setting up email delivery. No code required.

Learn how to connect a Google Sheets spreadsheet to Typsetter and generate PDFs from each row automatically. We build a complete invoice automation system: a Sheets template for billing data, a Typsetter invoice template, and a Google Apps Script trigger that generates and emails invoices on the 1st of each month.

A curated guide to the five most important invoice templates for freelancers: professional service invoice, retainer agreement, project proposal, hourly billing statement, and late payment reminder. Each template is available free in the Typsetter store with full customization support — change your brand colors, logo, and fields in minutes.

An in-depth introduction to Typst — the compiled typesetting language powering Typsetter. We explore why Typst is 10× faster than LaTeX for compilation, how its scripting model compares to LaTeX macros, why it's a better choice than HTML/CSS for precise document layout, and how we use it as the rendering engine behind our PDF API.