Making Pretty VisualForce PDFs

VisualForce pages rendered as PDF never retain the font styling and other formating present in the HTML. What have you done to make the output more like the HTML output?

June 17, 2009
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TehNrd
This thread has a post on the supported fonts. There are not many. http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=Visualforce&message.id=8601&query.id=474456#M8601

I've also found that importing a external style sheet works a lot better than inline styles for PDF generation.

June 18, 2009
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Mak
I used html elements instead of VF tags.

June 18, 2009
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ryanhca
My VF page is 100% HTML right now, with no VF tags... I wanted to make sure I could create a nice looking PDF with static HTML first.

It doesn't seem to recognize CSS style sheets. If I include inline styles, it seems to recognize some. For instance, if I put:

<p style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px">Text here</p>

... it will recognize the smaller font size, but not the font face -- it'll render it in Times New Roman.

Table styles are completely ignored.

June 18, 2009
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