Render

Running as_docorator() does not render your display - it creates a docorator object to store all your display information. For rendering, an explicit call to a render function is needed. A display can be output to PDF, RTF, or both via a combination of the render_pdf() and render_rtf() functions.

Further, with render_pdf(), users have a choice of R Markdown or Quarto engines via the quarto option. Currently, the result is nearly identical, except for {gt} tables, where quarto = FALSE renders the gt via the longtable LaTeX library and quarto = TRUE via the tabular LaTeX library. Please note the Quarto engine is currently experimental and can take longer to render.

Render to PDF

as_docorator(
  mytbl,
  display_name = "mytbl"
) |> 
render_pdf()

If you understand the underlying LaTeX involved in going from a display object to PDF, render_pdf has a few arguments which could be of use.

The transform argument allows you to pass a function to manipulate the LaTeX string of the object before it goes to PDF.
The header_latex argument allows additional LaTeX to be added to the header-includes section of the template.Rmd used for PDF generation. For example, you can pass additional LaTeX libraries here. This should be passed as a .tex file.
The escape_latex argument controls escaping for special characters in headers and footers. This can be set to FALSE to disable the escaping if manual escaping is preferred, i.e. if results are not as expected.

Render to RTF

as_docorator(
  mytbl,
  display_name = "mytbl"
) |> 
render_rtf()

Due to the limitations of the RTF file format, some arguments specified in your as_docorator() call are not preserved, such as certain formatting or table styling. Document decoration headers are also not preserved, only titles specified as ‘center’ will be applied.

Multi-render

as_docorator(
  mytbl,
  display_name = "mytbl"
) |>
render_pdf() |>
render_rtf()

Both render_pdf() and render_rtf() return the original object created with as_docorator(), and as such, can be piped one after another as shown in the example above.