Page Separation and PDF export

[jacopouggeri]

Greetings everyone,

Current PDF export is naively implemented and comes with inconveniently placed page breaks, while it would be nice to have cleanly separated A4 pages, similar to this example.

Possible solutions are:

• Explicitly separate the content in sections that should be rendered on separate A4 pages, as is done in the example above.
• Dynamically allocate content into pages, a strategy which aligns more with our mission.

Another detail up for discussion is that currently PDF export keeps user preferences such as font and dark/light mode. Should PDF export retain font-size preferences too? Should PDF export have a more advanced interface, allowing users to manually select styling options such as font, font size and colours? In this case dynamical page separation will be essential. Fern's aim is to move away from PDF, but adding customisation and accessibility through PDF generation still aligns with our aims.

Additionally, we could introduce a page-separated PDF mode as a view option (as in the example above), contrasting the default continuous-scroll format.

I look forward to hearing your insights and thank you for engaging in this conversation!