puppeteer/website/versioned_docs/version-21.3.4/api/puppeteer.pdfoptions.md

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sidebar_label: PDFOptions
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# PDFOptions interface

Valid options to configure PDF generation via [Page.pdf()](./puppeteer.page.pdf.md).

#### Signature:

```typescript
export interface PDFOptions
```

## Properties

| Property            | Modifiers             | Type                                      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Default                                                                  |
| ------------------- | --------------------- | ----------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| displayHeaderFooter | <code>optional</code> | boolean                                   | Whether to show the header and footer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | <code>false</code>                                                       |
| footerTemplate      | <code>optional</code> | string                                    | HTML template for the print footer. Has the same constraints and support for special classes as [PDFOptions.headerTemplate](./puppeteer.pdfoptions.md).                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |                                                                          |
| format              | <code>optional</code> | [PaperFormat](./puppeteer.paperformat.md) |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | <code>letter</code>.                                                     |
| headerTemplate      | <code>optional</code> | string                                    | <p>HTML template for the print header. Should be valid HTML with the following classes used to inject values into them:</p><p>- <code>date</code> formatted print date</p><p>- <code>title</code> document title</p><p>- <code>url</code> document location</p><p>- <code>pageNumber</code> current page number</p><p>- <code>totalPages</code> total pages in the document</p> |                                                                          |
| height              | <code>optional</code> | string \| number                          | Sets the height of paper. You can pass in a number or a string with a unit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |                                                                          |
| landscape           | <code>optional</code> | boolean                                   | Whether to print in landscape orientation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | <code>false</code>                                                       |
| margin              | <code>optional</code> | [PDFMargin](./puppeteer.pdfmargin.md)     | Set the PDF margins.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | <code>undefined</code> no margins are set.                               |
| omitBackground      | <code>optional</code> | boolean                                   | Hides default white background and allows generating pdfs with transparency.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | <code>false</code>                                                       |
| pageRanges          | <code>optional</code> | string                                    | Paper ranges to print, e.g. <code>1-5, 8, 11-13</code>.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | The empty string, which means all pages are printed.                     |
| path                | <code>optional</code> | string                                    | The path to save the file to.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | <code>undefined</code>, which means the PDF will not be written to disk. |
| preferCSSPageSize   | <code>optional</code> | boolean                                   | Give any CSS <code>@page</code> size declared in the page priority over what is declared in the <code>width</code> or <code>height</code> or <code>format</code> option.                                                                                                                                                                                                        | <code>false</code>, which will scale the content to fit the paper size.  |
| printBackground     | <code>optional</code> | boolean                                   | Set to <code>true</code> to print background graphics.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | <code>false</code>                                                       |
| scale               | <code>optional</code> | number                                    | Scales the rendering of the web page. Amount must be between <code>0.1</code> and <code>2</code>.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | <code>1</code>                                                           |
| timeout             | <code>optional</code> | number                                    | Timeout in milliseconds. Pass <code>0</code> to disable timeout.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | <code>30_000</code>                                                      |
| width               | <code>optional</code> | string \| number                          | Sets the width of paper. You can pass in a number or a string with a unit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |                                                                          |