[vgalin]

I wrote a Python package [1] that does something similar! It allows the generation of images from HTML+CSS strings or files (or even other files like SVGs) and could probably handle PDF generation too. It uses the headless version of Chrome/Chromium or Edge behind the scenes.

Writing this package made me realize that even big projects (such as Chromium) sometimes have features that just don't work. Edge headless wouldn't let you take screenshots up until recently, and I still encountered issues with Firefox last time I tried to add support for it in the package. I also stumbled upon weird behaviors of Chrome CDP when trying to implement an alternative to using the headless mode, and these issues eventually fixed themselves after some Chrome updates.

[1] https://github.com/vgalin/html2image

[rudasn]

Yeah it's the same concept, instead of .screenshot you do .pdf in pupetteer.

But with pdfs the money is on getting those headers and footers consistent and on every page, so you do need some handcrafted html and print styling for that (hint: the answer is tables).