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Adobe PDF Services Create PDF API

Create PDF documents from supported file formats including Microsoft Office, images, and HTML.

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Adobe PDF Services Create PDF API is one of 52 APIs that Adobe publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Create PDF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, a changelog, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 29 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://pdf-services-ue1.adobe.io, https://pdf-services-ew1.adobe.io, https://pdf-services.adobe.io.

2 operations 2 paths 29 schemas 1 GET1 POST

Metadata

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Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://pdf-services.adobe.io
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Adobe PDF Services Create PDF API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth).

  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 access token obtained via client credentials grant from Adobe Identity Management Service (IMS). Generate credentials in the Adobe Developer Console…

Paths & Operations 2

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 1 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Create PDF 2

Create PDF document from Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Markdown and Image file formats.

POST
/operation/createpdf
Create PDF document from non PDF document.
pdfoperations.createpdf 2 params body → 201400404401429500
GET
/operation/createpdf/{jobID}/status
Poll the create PDF job for completion
pdfoperations.jobstatus 3 params → 200400404401429500

Schemas 29

The contract defines 29 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are CreatePDFRequest (6 properties), CreatePDFInternal (5 properties), CreatePDFExternal (4 properties), JobStatusResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

done
Satus404
object
1 property
400
object
1 property
500
object
1 property
external
object
Response in case of 'done' status using signed urls
1 property
externaldonewithoutoutput
object
Response in case of 'done' status
2 properties
404
object
1 property
ExternalStorageInput
object
Params representing input object.
2 properties 1 required
CreatePDFPageRange
object
Parameters to allow specifying which pages to be included for the PDF document. If pageRange is not provided, all pages are considered by default.
2 properties
CreatePDFJobStatus
CreatePDFExternal
object
Params for Create PDF Operation using external storage
4 properties 1 required
failed
object
Response in case of 'failed' status
2 properties
externalstatus
ExternalStorageOutput
object
Params representing output object
2 properties
429
object
1 property
Status400
object
1 property
inprogress
object
Response in case of 'in progress' status
1 property
documentLanguage
string
Specifies the default language for the input non-PDF document. In absence of font info within file’s content, an appropriate font is chosen on its basis. Note…
responseAsset
object
Details of output asset document. For more details click here .
3 properties
CreatePDFInternal
object
Params for Create PDF Operation
5 properties 1 required
Satus429
object
2 properties
notifiers
array
Specifies the notifiers to be invoked on the completion of job. To know more about notifiers, please see the documentation .
Satus401
object
1 property
401
object
1 property
internal
object
Response in case of 'done' status
2 properties
Satus500
object
1 property
JobStatusResponse
object
The status and result of an asynchronous PDF operation job.
3 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Error response returned when a request fails.
1 property
CreatePDFRequest
object
6 properties 1 required

Specification

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Source

adobe-create-pdf-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
adobe:adobe-create-pdf-api
Base URL
https://pdf-services.adobe.io
Docs
https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/apis/pdf-services/
Provider
Adobe
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