Combine a Word document and a web page

You have a cover page as HTML and a report as a Word document. You want one PDF: the cover printed by Chromium, then the report.

Requests

Convert the Word document first:

curl \
  --request POST http://localhost:3000/forms/libreoffice/convert \
  --form files=@report.docx \
  -o report.pdf

Then print the cover, and insert the report after its page:

curl \
  --request POST http://localhost:3000/forms/chromium/convert/html \
  --form files=@index.html \
  --form files=@style.css \
  --form files=@report.pdf \
  --form 'stages=[
    { "op": "insert", "source": "report.pdf", "at": 1 }
  ]' \
  -o combined.pdf

Result

A four-page PDF: the cover, then the report's three pages.

How it works

• Each engine makes its own part: Chromium the web page, LibreOffice the document.
• A conversion's stages see only the PDF it prints. insert brings in the uploaded report.pdf by name: see Insert pages.
• at: 1 inserts after the first page. at: 0 puts the report before the cover.

Variations

• Several documents: convert them in one request with a merge stage, then insert the result.
• The cover on each page instead: stamp-pdf draws one PDF's page over another's.
• One request only: the LibreOffice route converts .html too, but LibreOffice then lays the page out, not Chromium.