Generate Multi-Page PDF for Printing

How to generate asynchronously a multi page PDF - Abyssale REST API

This feature is available from the Suite plan.

Asynchronous Asset Generation Endpoint

POST /async/banner-builder/{design_id}/generate

Generation Characteristics

• Supported Design Type: Print multi page

• Response: Asynchronous

• Enables batch generation of multiple assets

• Retrieval methods:

  • Webhooks

  • Polling

Output File Types

Supported formats:

• Multi page printable PDF

Additional information

Retrieval Mechanism

• Initial request returns a generation_request_id

• You can track generation status and retrieve results using:

  • Webhook notifications

  • Periodic API polling

Key feature

• Supports bulk asset creation

• Allows handling of complex or time-consuming generation tasks

• Provides flexibility in result retrieval

Output customisation

In addition to the supported image properties, a print property can be set to customise the output PDF. Here is the available option:

Display crop marks

• Default: the value you have in the builder

• Boolean

Color profile

uuid	description
be2ab219-8fe4-4d85-91ba-65bdc9ddaf01	CMYK - ISO Coated v2 (ECI)
03738f37-5b6f-4be9-9100-706b1711f9dd	CMYK - ISO Coated v2 (ECI) 300%
e0c86a8a-050c-41f1-885a-0f74b9baac50	CMYK - ISO Uncoated
0e0355e6-2931-4c83-92f2-64db9f5ddffc	CMYK - US Web Coated (SWOP 2006 5v2)
db3c123e-1127-11ef-b77e-f93002785645	RGB - No color profile included
fac91df8-1155-11ef-b77e-f93002785645	CMYK - ISO Newspaper26 v4

Configuration Example:

"print": {
 "display_crop_marks": true,
 "color_profile": "e0c86a8a-050c-41f1-885a-0f74b9baac50"
}

Multi page print design

Sample request

Do not forget to replace {YOUR-API-KEY} and {design_id}

cURL

curl -X POST -H "x-api-key:{YOUR-API-KEY}" -H "Content-Type: application/json"  \
-d '{
  "pages": {
    "page_1": {
      "root": {
        "background_color": "cmyka(0,0,0,0,100)"
      },
      "tb-image_0": {
        "image_url": "https://mycompany.com/image.jpeg"
      },
      "tb-text_0": {
        "payload": "Lorem Ipsum"
      }
    },
    "page_2": {
      "root": {
        "background_color": "cmyka(0,0,0,0,100)"
      },
      "tb-image_0": {
        "image_url": "https://mycompany.com/image.jpeg"
      },
      "tb-text_0": {
        "payload": "Lorem Ipsum"
      },
      "tb-text_1": {
        "payload": "Lorem Ipsum"
      }
    }
}' \
https://api.abyssale.com/async/banner-builder/{design_id}/generate

Javascript

Python

Sample response

{"generation_request_id": "166e1852-dc97-43e3-a5f2-142076452c74"}