When generating PDF from HTML if QT_NO_CSSPARSER is set the borders are incorrectly drawn (very wide). As far as I can tell this is because the QRectF drawn as border are initialised with QRectF(x,y,right_x,bottom_y) instead of QRectF(x,y,width,height). Attached is a patch which fixed this for me using Qt4.8.2, but the code is still the same in Qt4.8.6. Disclaimer: I have not tested this for other than HTML->PDF generation. Disclaimer2: I'm not used to patches, but I hope it works.