Full bleed background color

[jkjustjoshing]

Problem

I'm trying to build a PDF that has a colored background, but I don't believe that's currently possible with this library.

Adding background color to user_css gives me a background color, just not full-bleed to the edge of the page. I've tried setting margins to 0 on body, html, and @page, and setting width/height to 100%. I also can't get the background color to take the entire height of the page, if the content is only part of the page.

Request

When creating a Section(), it should have a background_color option. If it's set, when creating a new PDF page, first draw a rectangle with that background color before populating the page with anything else.

[vb64]

Thanks for the interesting request.

This could be a useful improvement, but I can't give a timeline for implementation.

[vb64]

After some thought, I came to the conclusion that setting the background color of a page in a PDF document wasn't the purpose for which markdown-pdf was created.

After saving the PDF file created from Markdown, you can open it with any PDF processing library and apply the desired color to the pages.

For example, see applying a watermark in the PyMuPDF documentation.