WeasyPrint

Weasyprint [0] is OSS and supports CSS Paged media. I’m not actually sure why you’d ever use something like this project (or headless chrome for that matter, maybe you need some automated login as well?) which doesn’t. print-css.rock [1] has a good overview of available tools and their features. [0]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint [1]: https://print-css.rocks/

I think the go to solution is weasyprint for this? https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint

https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint > From a technical point of view, WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. It aims to support web standards for printing. WeasyPrint is free software made available under a BSD license. Hmm, I wonder if you could use servo for a similar purpose.

Also see a full web rendering engine (modern HTML + CSS + the whole layout engine) made in pure Python, that can export to PDFs: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint They even support a lot of properties that aren't in Gecko/WebKit/Blink, like the @page rules.

To save everyone else a search: https://weasyprint.org/ https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint

Flexbox support has been [included][1] since 2018, although my use case was the prototypical one - a single row w/ 3 columns - so YMMV with how it handles more complex layouts. [1]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/579

The Paged Media spec on counters and counter-resets paints implementations into a corner. They can't both comply with the spec and implement page count resets on page breaks. This has been a known issue with the spec since 2013[1][2] and been a thorn in implementations since.[3] 1: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/334 2: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4760 3: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/93#issuecomment-4...

Is there an open source pure-.NET library that implements this? I've heard good things about https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint in Python.

This issue? https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/1719

I can really recommend weasyprint for (markdown→)html→pdf generation: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint Things like columns, footers/headers, hyphenation are all easily done with modern CSS.

I wonder why they didn't pick up Weasy on the PDF build side? That's my go-to if I have access to a Python environment. Probably too resource hungry, or some flippery making Jupiter work with it. I've seen Jupiter all over the place but haven't played with it. https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint https://weasyprint.org/

Yeah, in the Python world there's WeasyPrint for PDF out in the wild as well. It's quite slick, but it's a harder sell because of Python, which corporate types seem to think is bad hacker central. https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint