@abnv @ciccarello.me@ciccarello.me it’s the last-mile difference between “print-able” and “looks good when printed”:
headers, margins, colours, image locations, firefox/chrome differences, page breaks, code positioning/overflows, orphaned elements, etc.
there’s a whole swath of things that just don’t behave the same way in a browser as they do on a printer, because they can’t — you can force it to work, but it’s a hassle. testing has long cycle times. “prod” is actually printing the pdf to a s…
That matches my experience. For work, we generate PDF reports on the server because browser support for print styles is so poor. I wish browsers would work on that but I don’t think it’s a priority for them.
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