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

6 points by gokulsiva ↗ HN
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.

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I only know how to lay things out well in HTML, so I never moved away from it.
I've never found any lib or tooling (in my ecosystem) that DIDN'T use html -> pdf