node.js - Trying to hide first footer/header on PDF generated with Puppeteer

Question

Im new using nodejs functions and also puppeteer. Previously I was using wkhtmltopdf but currently its options are very poor.

So, my idea was generating a pdf from a html with a first cover page (an image with full A4 width/height ), since the footer is generated from the index.js, theres no way to hide it on the FIRST page of the PDF.

//Imports
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
//Open browser
async function startBrowser() {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: true, args:['--no-sandbox']});
    const page = await browser.newPage();
    return {browser, page};
}
//Close browser
async function closeBrowser(browser) {
    return browser.close();
}
//Html to pdf
async function html2pdf(url) {
    const {browser, page} = await startBrowser();
    await page.goto(url, {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'});
    await page.emulateMedia('screen');
    //Options
    await page.pdf({
        printBackground: true,
        path: 'result.pdf',
        displayHeaderFooter: true,
        footerTemplate: '<div style="width:100%;text-align:right;position:relative;top:10px;right:10px;"><img width="60px" src="data:data:image/..."'
        margin : {top: '0px',right: '0px',bottom: '40px',left: '0px' },
        scale: 1,
        landscape: false,
        format: 'A4',
        pageRanges: ""
    });
}
//Exec
(async () => {
    await html2pdf('file:///loc/node_pdfs/givenhtml.html');
    process.exit(1);
})();

My question is, is there any way to locate the first footer and hide it from the index fuction?

Thanks!

Answer 1

There are currently multiple bugs (see this question/answer or this one) that make it impossible to get this working.

This is currently only possible for headers using this trick (taken from this github comment):

await page.addStyleTag({
    content: `
        body { margin-top: 1cm; }
        @page:first { margin-top: 0; }
    `,
});

This will basically hide the margin on the first page, but will not work when using a bottom margin (as also noted here).

Possible Solution

The solution I recommend is to create two PDFs, one with only the first page and no margins, and another one with the remaining pages and a margin:

await page.pdf({
    displayHeaderFooter: false,
    pageRanges: '1',
    path: 'page1.pdf',
});

await page.pdf({
    displayHeaderFooter: true,
    footerTemplate: '<div style="font-size:5mm;">Your footer text</div>',
    margin: {
        bottom: '10mm'
    },
    pageRanges: '2-', // start this PDF at page 2
    path: 'remaining-pages.pdf',
});

Depending on how often you need to perform the task you could either manually merge the PDFs or automate it using a tool like easy-pdf-merge (I have not used this one myself).