From Paperplane to Converterer: rebuilding a file-conversion API for the next decade
Why the HTML-to-PDF service you knew as Paperplane is now Converterer, what's the same, what's expanded, and how the rebrand affects existing API users.
Blog
Notes from the build.
Engineering write-ups, product updates, and the occasional opinion about why file conversion is harder than it looks.
Print CSS basics in 10 minutes
A practical walk through @media print, page break properties, the @page rule, and the small set of CSS techniques you actually need to produce clean printable pages and PDFs in 2026.
Modern HTML to PDF conversion
What changed in HTML-to-PDF rendering between 2019 and 2026: the new headless Chrome mode, Playwright vs Puppeteer, serverless rendering, paged.js, and when you should just call an API instead.