print-and-pdf-design

name	print-and-pdf-design
description	Use when designing print and PDF output (invoices, reports, audit packets). Covers print stylesheets, PDF generation libraries, and the layout that survives both.

Print And Pdf Design

Print is still real. Bad print output ruins audit packets, invoices, and reports.

Print stylesheet

@media print {} — remove nav, footer, chrome. Black text on white. Page breaks at section breaks.

PDF generation

Server-side (Puppeteer, wkhtmltopdf, react-pdf). Better than browser print for consistent output.

Layout

Letter / A4. 1-inch margins. Page numbers at footer. Title at header on each page.

Tables in PDF

Repeat header row on each page break. Don't break rows across pages.

Common mistakes

No print stylesheet — page prints with nav + footer. PDF that doesn't paginate. No header/footer on multi-page PDF. Images that don't render in print.

Where this fits in X3 Compass

Applied across the X3 Compass design system.