What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?

Question

Curious what broke first &mdash; pagination, tables, fonts, or maintainability.

gokulsiva · Accepted Answer

Context: I&rsquo;m asking because I&rsquo;m building an open-source tool around server-side HTML &rarr; PDF and keep seeing teams try &ldquo;lighter&rdquo; libraries first, then fall back to headless Chrome in production.Curious where that tipping point was for you.

baggy_trough · Answer

I only know how to lay things out well in HTML, so I never moved away from it.

What made you move back to HTML-to-PDF in production?

Curious what broke first — pagination, tables, fonts, or maintainability.

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.

I only know how to lay things out well in HTML, so I never moved away from it.