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Discussion on: A reliable way to create PDF from HTML/markdown, with PDF specific features

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Oleksandr Popov

Our team has been working on a document generation project and we convert HTML to PDF using wkhtmltopdf. For example we generate documents like this using only HTML and CSS. wkhtmltopdf has a great CSS support. Regarding page breaks we can control them using page-break-before and page-break-after properties.

As for alternatives, recently we started to use docx templates and process them with docxtemplater and convert to PDF with libreoffice headless.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

Apparently, I find that pandoc alone can be powerful enough.

New page is as easy as \newpage. (I know, LaTeX syntax in Markdown.)

Also, geometry: margin=1cm in YAML frontmatter.

Also, LaTeX can be used to host and join PDF.

But, is there a best tool that can easily do all these?

BTW, I found Puppeteer unreliable.