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Does converting to HTML first and then to PDF help?

• deanebarker 2y ago
  This is what I have done for a couple of books I wrote in Markdown (https://deanebarker.net/books/ https://deanebarker.net/books/). Convert to HTML, then use Prince (https://www.princexml.com/ https://www.princexml.com/) to style and convert to PDF.
  • tnt128 2y ago
    Their licenses are pretty expensive. Any good free open source alternatives?
    • jessekv 2y ago
      If it looks correct in a browser, then chromium + playwright.
    • flowerthoughts 2y ago
      I don't know what the scope of this is, but https://pagedjs.org/ https://pagedjs.org/ is Javascript that does pagination and page margin styling. It's essentially a polyfill for CSS Paged Media: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-page-3/ Pretty nice to work with, if you can run JS. (The rest is just Puppeteer to print. Though I couldn't use their command line tool, because it force-injects paged.js, and it didn't play well with the Preact components for previewing I had made.)
    • deanebarker 2y ago
      I've only ever used a free version? I've never paid for it. I think it's free for personal projects? Or at least it was... Edit: I see it's $495 now. I don't think it was priced when I used it, but it's been 4-5 years.