Writing
Notes on making PDFs for production.
Short essays on PDF generation, document typography, react-pdf internals, and the trade-offs we make shipping tools that build other tools.
- Engineering9 min
Why your react-pdf table splits across pages (and the fix)
react-pdf tears table rows in half at page breaks because it can't measure layout. Here's the wrap={false} fix, a repeating header, and a full invoice that paginates cleanly.
Read - Engineering9 min
How to generate PDFs in React in 2026
The definitive 2026 guide to generating PDFs in React: the three approaches, when each one is right, where they break in production, and how to fix it.
Read - Engineering7 min
Why our PDF canvas had to become theme-immune
Dark mode was bleeding into the PDF preview. The fix required rewriting how Tailwind dark variants propagate through a nested editor surface.
Read - Engineering8 min
Stop using HTML-to-PDF for invoices
Puppeteer invoices look fine until you run 10,000 of them. Here's the hidden bill, and what to do instead.
Read - Product6 min
From Figma to PDF: the missing piece
Designers design in Figma, developers ship in code. The translation between the two is where PDF templates go to die. Here's why, and what closes the gap.
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