diff --git a/Dockerfile.allinone b/Dockerfile.allinone
index 51f1d8619..3196ae0c2 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.allinone
+++ b/Dockerfile.allinone
@@ -121,14 +121,6 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     libgbm1 \
     libcairo2 \
     libpango-1.0-0 \
-    # ============================
-    # Report export (WeasyPrint runtime libs — Pandoc installed separately below)
-    # ============================
-    libpangoft2-1.0-0 \
-    libharfbuzz0b \
-    # Try to install libharfbuzz-subset0 (WeasyPrint font subsetting for smaller PDFs).
-    # Available on Debian Bookworm+ / Ubuntu 24.04+; gracefully skipped on older distros.
-    && (apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libharfbuzz-subset0 || true) \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # Install Pandoc 3.x from GitHub (apt ships 2.9 which has broken table rendering).
@@ -137,6 +129,17 @@ RUN ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture) && \
     dpkg -i /tmp/pandoc.deb && \
     rm /tmp/pandoc.deb
 
+# Install Typst for PDF rendering (Typst has built-in professional styling
+# for tables, headings, code blocks, etc., no CSS needed).
+RUN ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture) && \
+    if [ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ]; then TYPST_ARCH="x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"; \
+    else TYPST_ARCH="aarch64-unknown-linux-musl"; fi && \
+    wget -qO /tmp/typst.tar.xz "https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/download/v0.13.1/typst-${TYPST_ARCH}.tar.xz" && \
+    tar -xf /tmp/typst.tar.xz -C /tmp && \
+    cp /tmp/typst-*/typst /usr/local/bin/typst && \
+    rm -rf /tmp/typst* && \
+    typst --version
+
 # Install Node.js 20.x (for running frontend)
 RUN curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | bash - \
     && apt-get install -y nodejs \
diff --git a/surfsense_backend/Dockerfile b/surfsense_backend/Dockerfile
index 6efdcc47b..044eca9eb 100644
--- a/surfsense_backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/surfsense_backend/Dockerfile
@@ -20,11 +20,6 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
     libxrender1 \
     dos2unix \
     git \
-    libpango-1.0-0 \
-    libpangoft2-1.0-0 \
-    # Try to install libharfbuzz-subset0 (WeasyPrint font subsetting for smaller PDFs).
-    # Available on Debian Bookworm+ / Ubuntu 24.04+; gracefully skipped on older distros.
-    && (apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libharfbuzz-subset0 || true) \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # Install Pandoc 3.x from GitHub (apt ships 2.17 which has broken table rendering).
@@ -33,6 +28,17 @@ RUN ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture) && \
     dpkg -i /tmp/pandoc.deb && \
     rm /tmp/pandoc.deb
 
+# Install Typst for PDF rendering (Typst has built-in professional styling
+# for tables, headings, code blocks, etc., no CSS needed).
+RUN ARCH=$(dpkg --print-architecture) && \
+    if [ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ]; then TYPST_ARCH="x86_64-unknown-linux-musl"; \
+    else TYPST_ARCH="aarch64-unknown-linux-musl"; fi && \
+    wget -qO /tmp/typst.tar.xz "https://github.com/typst/typst/releases/download/v0.13.1/typst-${TYPST_ARCH}.tar.xz" && \
+    tar -xf /tmp/typst.tar.xz -C /tmp && \
+    cp /tmp/typst-*/typst /usr/local/bin/typst && \
+    rm -rf /tmp/typst* && \
+    typst --version
+
 # Update certificates and install SSL tools
 RUN update-ca-certificates
 RUN pip install --upgrade certifi pip-system-certs
diff --git a/surfsense_backend/app/routes/reports_routes.py b/surfsense_backend/app/routes/reports_routes.py
index 9a250ce29..39ff320f5 100644
--- a/surfsense_backend/app/routes/reports_routes.py
+++ b/surfsense_backend/app/routes/reports_routes.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Report routes for read, export (PDF/DOCX), and delete operations.
 
 No create or update endpoints here — reports are generated inline by the
 agent tool during chat and stored as Markdown in the database.
-Export to PDF/DOCX is on-demand via pypandoc.
+Export to PDF/DOCX is on-demand via pypandoc (PDF uses Typst as the engine).
 
 Authorization: lightweight search-space membership checks (no granular RBAC)
 since reports are chat-generated artifacts, not standalone managed resources.
@@ -210,9 +210,16 @@ async def export_report(
         # pypandoc spawns a pandoc subprocess (blocking), so we run the
         # entire convert → read → cleanup pipeline in a thread executor
         # to avoid blocking the async event loop on any file I/O.
+        #
+        # PDF uses Typst as the rendering engine — Typst has built-in
+        # professional styling for tables, headings, code blocks, etc.,
+        # so no CSS injection is needed.
+        #
+        # Use "gfm" because LLM output uses GFM-style pipe tables that
+        # pandoc's stricter default "markdown" format may fail to parse.
         extra_args = ["--standalone"]
         if format == ExportFormat.PDF:
-            extra_args.append("--pdf-engine=weasyprint")
+            extra_args.append("--pdf-engine=typst")
 
         def _convert_and_read() -> bytes:
             """Run all blocking I/O (tempfile, pandoc, file read, cleanup) in a thread."""
@@ -222,7 +229,7 @@ async def export_report(
                 pypandoc.convert_text(
                     report.content,
                     format.value,
-                    format="md",
+                    format="gfm",
                     extra_args=extra_args,
                     outputfile=tmp_path,
                 )
diff --git a/surfsense_backend/pyproject.toml b/surfsense_backend/pyproject.toml
index 38da661b3..2abc07b5e 100644
--- a/surfsense_backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/surfsense_backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "langchain-unstructured>=1.0.1",
     "slowapi>=0.1.9",
     "pypandoc>=1.16.2",
-    "weasyprint>=68.1",
 ]
 
 [dependency-groups]