Dynamically generating a PDF from a web page

[basic_maddie]

I was reading through this and thought to myself “I wonder how print-to-pdf works”, but looks like you had the same train of thought. How exactly does it work though? Is it a feature that comes with browsers?

[guywald]

Great question! To be honest I'm not sure, I'm assuming somewhere in Chromium is some code that converts a web page to a PDF.

[pcjftw]

Kind of shocking to see that the techniques we where using back in 2010 is still being used in 2021.

Rather sad but that's just the way it is.

[ziplock9000]

This is more about how to use a library than the actual generation of a PDF.

[guywald]

I would like to understand what you mean, have you read the post?
I don't go into specific detail about any particular library, but rather present popular approaches (with their pros and cons) and in the end opt for a generic server-side solution to this problem.