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Guide: Development workflow tips

Useful tips to speed up your development workflow.

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Last updated 6 years ago

As you’re building web pages that you intend to convert to PDF, you can simply use the "Save as PDF" feature in Chrome to preview the PDF output.

Unfortunately custom headers and footers can't be set using this workflow, so you may need to create test PDFs using Paperplane to check the header and footer output. You can use a free tool like to make a local web server available to the outside world.

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