How to print html pages with colors?

cderv · September 1, 2021, 1:52pm

I think this is related by the fact that default document is using Bootstrap 3 and this framework has some specific CSS rules for printing. This is a limitation (issues) of Bootstrap 3.

Please see the discussion in

github.com/rstudio/pagedown

Can't Apply CSS Color to Standart RMarkdown HTML file with chrome_print() [to PDF]

opened 11:01AM - 13 Jul 21 UTC

closed 08:45AM - 15 Jul 21 UTC

serdardindas

Hi All, Firstly i want to thank you for this great package. This is my first …issue in github, I hope I could done it well. In pagedown package I create some basic examples with, poster_jacobs and resume templates. I always use them with chrome_print() to get PDF formats. Now I try to chrome_print() standart Rmarkdown_HTML to PDF. With this HTML file I can apply CSS text-align but I couldnt apply CSS Colors to text in PDF. In below you can see markdown YAML i use; ```` --- title: "Report" output: html_document: css: formatstyle2.css knit: pagedown::chrome_print --- ```` But when i try something different like [ html_document: ] to => [ pagedown::html_paged: ] I can see CSS Color has applied. But the html/pdf format of documents has changed. ```` --- title: "Report" output: pagedown::html_paged: css: formatstyle2.css knit: pagedown::chrome_print --- ```` Is there any way to use chrome_print() any standart Rmarkdown_HTML file with CSS Color can be seen? I hope i could tell the situation properly. Thank you.

Setting !important is a way to make the CSS rules the most important, so it will override any other and so it will apply even during Printing.

As I explained in the issue linked above, you could use newer version of bootstap to avoid this issue.

---
title: "Untitled"
output: 
  html_document:
    theme:
      version: 4
---

it should be better.