I Spent a Week Fighting HTML-to-PDF. Here’s What Finally Worked.

I’ve been building a property inspection platform with a friend of mine who’s an inspector. One of the requirements was deceptively simple: Generate PDF reports. That’s the deliverable inspectors send to insurance companies, banks, clients, etc. So the PDFs need to actually look good. Lots of photos, cover pages, tables of contents, structured sections, all that fun stuff. My friend uses Spectora right now and honestly their PDFs were pretty good. So I figured, alright, let me build something si