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Why HTML-to-PDF Breaks in Production (and What to Use Instead)
Almost every "generate a PDF" feature starts the same way.
You already have HTML. You already have CSS. So you reach for the obvious move: render the page, screenshot it to PDF, ship it. Puppeteer, Playwright, wkhtmltopdf, a hosted "HTML to PDF API" — pick your flavor. In an afternoon you have an invoice coming out the other end and it looks fine.
Then it goes to production. And "fine" slowly turns into a backlog of weird, hard-to-reproduce bugs.
This is not an argument that HTML-to-PDF...
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