Convert HTML to PDF using Power Automate
This article demonstrates how to convert an HTML document or an HTML string to PDF with the help of Power Automate (Microsoft Flow).
We will take an invoice as a sample HTML document:
Use this link to download it.
Note
If you need custom fonts or multilingual support, review the documentation article describing how to work with various fonts and how to convert foreign characters correctly.
Our documents have to be stored somewhere. Power Automate (Microsoft Flow) has a lot of connectors for different systems. Here are just a few of them:
SharePoint
Salesforce
Box
OneDrive
Google Drive
Dropbox
SFTP
File System
You can store your files anywhere. In this example, we will store our documents in SharePoint. Our Flow will get an HTML file from a SharePoint document library, convert it to PDF and store generated file back to the SharePoint document library.
This is how complete flow looks:
Here is the step-by-step description of the flow:
Flow trigger
You can actually pick any trigger. For example, you can start Flow on file creation in a SharePoint document library. We use “Manually trigger a flow” trigger here to simplify the Flow.
Get file content
This action gets file content of the specified file from the SharePoint document library. You just specify the SharePoint site URL and the path to your file.
You can use any other connector to get files from your system.
Convert HTML to PDF
This is an action from the Plumsail Documents connector.
If this is your first time using the Plumsail Documents connector, Power Automate will request you to create a new connection. Provide the following details and then click Create new:
Connection name - you can type any name for the connection, for example Plumsail Documents (production key);
API Key - create an API key in your Plumsail Account, copy it, and paste it into the API Key field;
Data center location - make sure the selected data center location matches one of your account.
Then just put HTML file content from the output of the previous action and receive PDF file content as an output of this action. You can also use raw HTML string as a source HTML.
You can find more information about this action here.
Create file
Now you need to store the HTML file somewhere. In our example, we use the “Create file” action from the SharePoint connector to store the PDF document into the SharePoint document library.
You can use any other connector to store PDF documents into your system.