Weasyprint pdf does not fit to page

Question

I have an html page with simple css2 rules. All of the content is contained in a div, which is 930px wide. In the browser, this looks as expected, and when printing (from chrome) it fits neatly to the page with a decent font size.

Once I try to create a PDF from this file using weasyprint, the font look much bigger, and the document exceeds the page width.

HTML(string=html, base_url=server_base_url).write_pdf(target=target) 

I'm not really sure how to debug the issue. Weasyprint does not seem to suppose print scaling, which is what I assume chrome is doing. Taking the document, rendering it, and then scaling it to fit on the page.

I tried using the zoom parameter of the write_pdf method .write_pdf(target=target, zoom=0.7), but it seems to zoom the page size AND the content size, so that is no help, really. I tried combining it with css to make the page bigger. So I zoom down with weasy and scale up with css

@page {
    size: XXXin YYYin
}

This just ended up looking weird. So where do I go from here?

Answer 1

Have you tried using

@page {
    size: Letter;
    margin: 0in 0.44in 0.2in 0.44in;
}

You can adjust the margin as you like, but the Letter size should be the standard page size

page size