Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python

Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by phonon on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:26PM (#44967184)

It would be great if you could run it against the tests at https://www.print-css.rocks/

They would give a much better idea of its complex printing capabilities.

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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by pac0 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @08:18PM (#44967843)

It should be required to run these tests for these libraries. It's really frustrating to have to discover it trying to make it work.

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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by tannhaeuser on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:52AM (#44969832)

CSS coverage is stated in [1]. It should be required to do minimal assessment before entitledly posting on HN.

[1]: https://github.com/plutoprint/plutobook/blob/main/FEATURES.m...

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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by phonon on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:08PM (#44976795)

I'm not sure your point. CSS print conformance is extremely complex. There is a fairly well known open source test suite, that's fully dynamic, that can be run with visual outputs, fail/pass metrics etc. That would give an interested new user a much better grounding if the library is worth using, considering there are already several other options.

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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by decafb on Friday August 22, 2025 @02:41AM (#44981615)

I'm surprised to see the properties I'm most interested in neither in these tests nor in plutoprints supported css. I'm talking about `text-wrap: pretty` (potentially avoid rivers and orpahns, depending on implementation), `orphans`, `widows` and the various `break-`.

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