1 pointby gokulsiva4 hours ago2 comments
  • gokulsiva3 hours ago
    Context: I’m asking because I’m building an open-source tool around server-side HTML → PDF and keep seeing teams try “lighter” libraries first, then fall back to headless Chrome in production.

    Curious where that tipping point was for you.

  • baggy_trough3 hours ago
    I only know how to lay things out well in HTML, so I never moved away from it.
    • gokulsivaan hour ago
      That makes sense. Have you run into any pain points once documents got large or more structured (tables, headers/footers, multi-page), or has HTML held up fine for you so far?
      • baggy_trough22 minutes ago
        Yeah, the fact that Chrome doesn't support a lot of the CSS pagination properties is a problem. We have to use paged.js to do table of contents for example. And that requires controlling Chrome via puppeteer or the like. That's been a bit of a pain.