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by Leoko 829 days ago
Yes, page breaks are probably the most significant difference between the layout of a web page and a PDF document, and thereby a major drawback when using HTML-to-PDF. There is little to no tooling for this in the web.

If you want granular control over how your PDF will look with content that is more than one page long, you will have a hard time using html.
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Titou325 829 days ago
We actually provide helpers to do that in our React library https://react.onedoclabs.com/components/shell#pagebreak

CSS actually implements the break-before property to control this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-befor... which is also supported by the Print to PDF dialog in modern browsers.

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pedro120 829 days ago
That's what we are trying to solve at Onedoc, we want developers to be able to have full control over the PDF layout as they write content. react-print is built with the intention of creating the illusion that React was meant for PDFs.
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