Tornado (v2.0) - Web Services Guide

(NOV 2015)

This manual is intended to be a complete reference for software developers responsible for connecting to the Tornado web service REST-based API.

This manual covers:

  • Key concepts: Character encoding, fonts and storage of templates and documents.
  • API fundamentals, response codes and messages.
  • Using the "render" service to generate documents.
  • Render parameters for controlling development/production modes, watermarks, pdf tagging and emailing.
  • Options for sending image data or dynamically sourcing images from a URL.
  • Other API services like: ping, status and get template structure.
  • and much more...

 

Product Summary

The Tornado product is stand-alone self-hosted document generation software that can run on Linux, Windows, or using a containerized approach such as Docker. Suitable for use in private data centers or public cloud services like AWS/Azure. Tornado provides template-based document generation as a web service via a REST API.