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I have a VF page built on Lightning Design system (LDS) framework. When I add the renderAs="PDF" attribute, pdf does not show the content with LDS CSS/Style.

Reference Link: SLDS not rendering CSS styling when VF renderAs PDF

Note1: apex:page tag has all the usual attributes which is required for pdf *

(showHeader="false" sidebar="false" standardStylesheets="false" docType="html-5.0" applyHtmlTag="false" applyBodyTag="false")

Note2: Salesforce supports external stylesheet. That is, CSS file stored in Static resource. Link of example: Creating Professional PDF Documents with CSS and Visualforce

I also copied the whole css content from the LDS CSS file (Path: 'assets/styles/salesforce-lightning-design-system-vf.min.css') and applied as inline CSS in VF page. But still, there is no luck.

My styleSheet is referred in VF page as below

apex:stylesheet value="{!URLFOR($Resource.SLDS221, 
    'assets/styles/salesforce-lightning-design-system-vf.min.css')}"

Page works absolutely fine if it is not rendered as PDF.

Any suggestions?

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  • looks similar to this salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/133649/…
    – Vladyslav K
    Jun 13, 2017 at 6:01
  • @VladyslavKushney Yes Issue is similar, but the accepted solution for that issue is absolutely WRONG. Salesforce accepts the Internal and External styles(mentioned in Note2), Additionally, I made a comment on that issue as well. Thanks for linking this with that.
    – Syed Moosa Nazir TN
    Jun 14, 2017 at 4:47

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It is a common assumption that the HTML to PDF engine presently used by Salesforce is Flying Saucer that only supports version 2.1 of CSS (W3C Recommendation 07 June 2011) whereas SLDS is designed to work with modern browsers only that support version 3 CSS.

So while you may be able to eventually get some parts of the SLDS markup to work, the PDF output is unlikely ever to be as you would like it to be. Including simple CSS used just for the PDF output is the simplest workaround.

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    You can try to get in the Summer'17 Pilot "Use Advanced PDF to Render Visualforce Pages as PDF Files": releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/summer17/release-notes/…
    – Fabien Taillon
    Jun 13, 2017 at 8:14
  • @FabienTaillon Thanks!. As you mentioned, its a pilot product which we cant relay on it. It is subject to change at any time. I will request Salesforce to enable this feature to test my code. But in simultaneously trying to figure out this issue.
    – Syed Moosa Nazir TN
    Jun 14, 2017 at 4:55
  • @Keith. Thanks!. I feel you are correct. Salesforce use a legacy versioned tool to generate pdf which is not supporting the advanced CSS/Styles. I end up by converting into simple CSS. Thanks for your clarification.
    – Syed Moosa Nazir TN
    Jun 14, 2017 at 4:59
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    @EmmanuelBRUNO seems that your last comment here is not related to the correct question, can you check again ?
    – Shamina
    Feb 7, 2021 at 15:00
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    That pilot program appears to have been canceled altogether: salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/215619/…
    – curiouser
    Mar 18, 2022 at 13:38

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