diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfAction.java b/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfAction.java
index d2dbdac1..61d97489 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfAction.java
+++ b/qqq-backend-core/src/main/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfAction.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout.PdfBoxFontResolver;
 import com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout.PdfBoxRenderer;
 import com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout.PdfRendererBuilder;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
+import org.jsoup.helper.W3CDom;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
 
 
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ public class ConvertHtmlToPdfAction extends AbstractQActionFunction<ConvertHtmlT
          //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
          Document document = Jsoup.parse(input.getHtml());
          document.outputSettings().syntax(Document.OutputSettings.Syntax.xml);
+         org.w3c.dom.Document w3cDoc = new W3CDom().fromJsoup(document);
 
          //////////////////////////////
          // convert the XHTML to PDF //
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ public class ConvertHtmlToPdfAction extends AbstractQActionFunction<ConvertHtmlT
          PdfRendererBuilder builder = new PdfRendererBuilder();
          builder.toStream(input.getOutputStream());
          builder.useFastMode();
-         builder.withHtmlContent(document.html(), input.getBasePath() == null ? "./" : input.getBasePath().toUri().toString());
+         builder.withW3cDocument(w3cDoc, input.getBasePath() == null ? "./" : input.getBasePath().toUri().toString());
 
          try(PdfBoxRenderer pdfBoxRenderer = builder.buildPdfRenderer())
          {
diff --git a/qqq-backend-core/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfActionTest.java b/qqq-backend-core/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfActionTest.java
index 4249275c..272a7ac4 100644
--- a/qqq-backend-core/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfActionTest.java
+++ b/qqq-backend-core/src/test/java/com/kingsrook/qqq/backend/core/actions/templates/ConvertHtmlToPdfActionTest.java
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ class ConvertHtmlToPdfActionTest extends BaseTest
                      </h1>
                      <div class="myclass">
                          <p>This is a test of converting HTML to PDF!!</p>
+                         <p>This is &nbsp; a line with &bull; some entities &lt;</p>
                          <p style="font-family: SF-Pro; font-size: 24px;">(btw, is this in SF-Pro???)</p>
                      </div>
                  </div>