HTML to PDF

• Email content archive. Save an HTML email as PDF for record-keeping.
• Custom invoice or receipt. Generate HTML from your billing system, render to PDF, attach to email.
• Report generation. Build a styled HTML report (chart libraries, custom CSS), export to PDF.
• Documentation snapshots. Save a doc page at a point in time.
• Editorial proof. Convert draft HTML to PDF for review.
• Static site export. Print specific pages from a static site for offline reading.

1. Open HTML to PDF.
2. Drop an .html file or paste HTML directly into the editor.
3. Pick a page size (A4 or Letter).
4. Click Save as PDF. Your browser's print dialog opens.
5. Choose Save as PDF as the destination.

The print engine renders the HTML with the browser's full CSS support — exactly what you'd see in a browser tab, but paginated.

Because we use the browser's native print engine, you get everything the browser supports:

• Flexbox, Grid, Position. All modern layout primitives.
• Web fonts. @font-face works; fonts load before printing.
• Backgrounds and gradients. Browser may have a "background graphics" toggle in the print dialog — enable for full color.
• Print-specific CSS. @media print rules apply. Use page-break-before / page-break-after for explicit pagination control.
• @page rules. Set page size, margins, and headers/footers per CSS spec.

Caveats:

• External resources need HTTPS. Images, fonts, and stylesheets must be HTTPS-reachable; mixed-content blocking will skip HTTP assets.
• JavaScript runs once before print. Heavy SPAs that fetch async data may not finish rendering before the print dialog opens.
• iframe content may not render depending on the source's CORS policy.

By default, the browser paginates wherever it lands. To force breaks:

• Page break before an element: <div style="page-break-before: always"></div>
• Keep an element on one page: page-break-inside: avoid
• Break after: page-break-after: always

For headers/footers on every page, use the @page CSS at-rule with margin boxes — though browser support varies.

For one-off conversions, the browser tool is fastest. For automation (1000 invoices/day), Puppeteer is the right answer.

• Popup blocked. Allow popups for swissarmypdf.com.
• Images missing. External images need HTTPS. Local file paths and HTTP-only URLs are blocked.
• Background colors missing. In the print dialog, enable "Background graphics" (Chrome) or "Print backgrounds" (Firefox).
• Layout breaks in print. Some CSS layouts that work on screen break at page boundaries. Use page-break-inside: avoid on elements you want to keep together.
• Web fonts didn't load. The print dialog can fire before async font loads finish. Wait a moment and retry.

HTML files often contain things you don't want online: internal report markup, draft content, email contents, customer data. Web-based converters upload your HTML to a remote server and render it there — your content briefly lives on someone else's disk. SwissArmyPDF uses your browser's own print engine; the HTML is rendered in a popup window in your browser, then your browser saves the PDF. No upload, no remote rendering.

• Markdown to PDF — if your source is markdown, go direct instead of converting MD → HTML → PDF.
• Merge PDF — bundle converted HTML files into one PDF.
• Compress PDF — shrink the output for email.
• Watermark PDF — mark as draft.