Node-html-pdf: Phantom.js-free replacement with headless Chrome

Created on 19 Jul 2017 · 6Comments · Source: marcbachmann/node-html-pdf

Since Phantom.js had its maintainer step down and cited headless Chrome as one of the reasons, I have decided to start building a replacement library that uses headless Chrome, html-pdf-chrome.

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westy92

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Thanks. Sadly chromium isn't as far as phantomjs regarding page customizations.
E.g. you can't even set a header & footer

And exactly this was the initial reason I've chosen phantomjs. If you don't need those, a headless chromium is the best solution at the moment.

marcbachmann on 19 Jul 2017

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Thanks. Sadly chromium isn't as far as phantomjs regarding page customizations.
E.g. you can't even set a header & footer

And exactly this was the initial reason I've chosen phantomjs. If you don't need those, a headless chromium is the best solution at the moment.

marcbachmann on 19 Jul 2017

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Yes, some features will require a bit more custom code. Headers/footers are tracked here: https://github.com/westy92/html-pdf-chrome/issues/16.

westy92 on 19 Jul 2017

custom page header/footer can be achieved by using native css features that I'm sure modern chrome versions support:
https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page/#margin-boxes

benjamine on 13 Sep 2017

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@benjamine – have you tried using margin-boxes with Chrome though? It doesn't appear to work.

kjantzer on 10 Oct 2017

Headless chrome (puppeteer) now supports custom headers and footers (see headerTemplate and footerTemplate options). We've made the switch and it's definitely an improvement.

One issue to be aware of is that CSS margins override any margins passed to the page.pdf API (https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/393).