We prepared this step-by-step tutorial with screenshots to teach you how to insert a page break when converting HTML to PDF.

Quick Navigation:

  1. Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard
  2. We will now set up our Trigger. Search and select Google drive as the App event. As for our Trigger Event go ahead and choose New File in Folder.
  3. Select or connect your Google Drive account which you will be using with Zapier
  4. Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the PDF file is located.
  5. We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none.
  6. Search and select PDF.co as our App event and select HTML to PDF Converter as our Action event.
  7. Select or connect your PDF.co account which you will be using with Zapier.
  8. Under Set Up Action, put <P style="page-break-before: always"> together with your HTML code where you want the page to end.
  9. Click on Test & Review to see if there are any errors or none.
  10. Once the test returns as successful. You can use the link to view and download the output PDF.

Step by step guide:

We will use this sample HTML and convert it to PDF with a Page break.

Screenshot of Source HTML
Screenshot of Source HTML

After following the step by step guide, the result will look like this:

Output PDF with Page Break
Output PDF with Page Break

STEP 1 – Start by clicking on Make a Zap! at the upper-left corner of your Zapier dashboard
STEP 2 -We will now set up our Trigger. Search and select Google drive as the App event. As for our Trigger Event go ahead and choose New File in Folder. In this case, whenever there’s a new file added to your specific folder, it will trigger this zap.

Selecting Google Drive as the Trigger and New File in Folder as the Trigger Event

NOTE: If you are not a Google Drive user, you can use a different cloud storage service such as Dropbox, OneDrive, etc., and look for a similar Trigger Event.

STEP 3 – Select or connect your Google Drive account which you will be using with Zapier

Choosing a Google Drive account to use

STEP 4 – Select My Google Drive as the drive to be used and select the specific folder where the PDF file is located.

Choosing My Google Drive as the drive to be used and selecting the folder that contains the PDF File

STEP 5 – We will then Test the trigger to see if there are any errors or none.

Testing the trigger

So we’re done setting up the Trigger. We will now set up the Action.

STEP 6 – Search and select PDF.co as our App event and select HTML to PDF Converter as our Action event. With HTML to PDF Converter, you can convert your raw HTML code into a PDF.

Choosing PDF.co as the Action and HTML to PDF Converter as the Action Event

STEP 7 – Select or connect your PDF.co account which you will be using with Zapier. You can get your API key by clicking here.

Choosing a PDF.co account to be used

STEP 8 – Under Set Up Action, put <P style="page-break-before: always"> together with your HTML code where you want the page to end. In my case, I put it in between the two headers to split them into two pages.

Setting up the action

STEP 9 – We will now Test the action. Click on Test & Review to see if there are any errors or none.

Testing the action

STEP 10 – Once the test returns as successful. You can use the link to view and download the output PDF.

Test successful