diff --git a/src/clj_htmltopdf/core.clj b/src/clj_htmltopdf/core.clj
index 3c5cf89..5bc11da 100644
--- a/src/clj_htmltopdf/core.clj
+++ b/src/clj_htmltopdf/core.clj
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 (ns clj-htmltopdf.core
   (:require
     [clojure.java.io :as io]
-    [clojure.string :as string]
     [hiccup.page :as h]
-    [clj-htmltopdf.css :as css]
     [clj-htmltopdf.options :as o])
   (:import
     [java.io OutputStream]
@@ -11,11 +9,10 @@
     [com.openhtmltopdf.pdfboxout PdfRendererBuilder]
     [com.openhtmltopdf.util XRLog]
     [org.jsoup Jsoup]
-    [org.jsoup.nodes Document Element]
-    [org.jsoup.parser Tag]))
+    [org.jsoup.nodes Document]))
 
-(defn- read-html
-  [in]
+(defn- read-html-string
+  ^String [in]
   (cond
     (string? in)     in
     (sequential? in) (h/html5 {} in)
@@ -23,35 +20,42 @@
                        (slurp r))))
 
 (defn- ->output-stream
-  [out]
+  ^OutputStream [out]
   (if (instance? OutputStream out)
     out
     (io/output-stream out)))
 
-(defn- set-jsoup-html-doc
-  [^PdfRendererBuilder builder jsoup-doc base-uri]
-  (let [doc (DOMBuilder/jsoup2DOM jsoup-doc)]
-    (.withW3cDocument builder doc base-uri)))
+(defn configure-logging!
+  [options]
+  (if (:logging? options)
+    (do
+      (if-let [logger (:logger options)]
+        (XRLog/setLoggerImpl logger))
+      (XRLog/setLoggingEnabled true))
+    ; NOTE: a bug in how Open HTML to PDF's XRLog class initializes itself will always result
+    ; in an initial little bit of logging output regardless of when we set this to false.
+    (XRLog/setLoggingEnabled false)))
+
+(defn prepare-html
+  [in options]
+  (let [html     (read-html-string in)
+        html-doc (Jsoup/parse html)]
+    (o/inject-options-into-html! html-doc options)
+    html-doc))
+
+(defn write-pdf!
+  [^Document html-doc ^String base-uri out]
+  (let [builder (PdfRendererBuilder.)
+        os      (->output-stream out)]
+    (.withW3cDocument builder (DOMBuilder/jsoup2DOM html-doc) base-uri)
+    (with-open [os os]
+      (.toStream builder os)
+      (.run builder)
+      os)))
 
 (defn ->pdf
   [in out & [options]]
   (let [options  (merge o/default-options options)
-        builder  (PdfRendererBuilder.)
-        html     (read-html in)
-        html-doc (Jsoup/parse html)
-        html-doc (o/inject-options-into-html html-doc options)
-        output   (->output-stream out)]
-    (if (:logging? options)
-      (let [logger (:logger options)]
-        (if logger (XRLog/setLoggerImpl logger))
-        (XRLog/setLoggingEnabled true))
-      (XRLog/setLoggingEnabled false))
-    (set-jsoup-html-doc builder html-doc (o/->base-uri options))
-    (with-open [os output]
-      (.toStream builder os)
-      (try
-        (.run builder)
-        os
-        (catch Exception ex
-          (throw (Exception. "Failed to convert to PDF." ex)))))))
-
+        html-doc (prepare-html in options)]
+    (configure-logging! options)
+    (write-pdf! html-doc (o/->base-uri options) out)))
diff --git a/src/clj_htmltopdf/options.clj b/src/clj_htmltopdf/options.clj
index 65e71c6..e09b758 100644
--- a/src/clj_htmltopdf/options.clj
+++ b/src/clj_htmltopdf/options.clj
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
                     (reduce #(assoc %1 (first %2) (second %2)) {}))]
     [["@page" styles]]))
 
-(defn append-page-options-style-tag
+(defn append-page-options-style-tag!
   ^Element [^Element parent options]
   (let [styles  (-> (:page options)
                     (page-options->css)
@@ -50,17 +50,17 @@
     (.attr element "type" "text/css")
     (.text element styles)))
 
-(defn append-base-css-link-tag
+(defn append-base-css-link-tag!
   ^Element [^Element parent]
   (let [element (.appendElement parent "link")]
     (.attr element "type" "text/css")
     (.attr element "rel" "stylesheet")
     (.attr element "href" (str (io/resource "htmltopdf-base.css")))))
 
-(defn inject-options-into-html
+(defn inject-options-into-html!
   [^Document doc options]
   (let [base-uri (->base-uri options)
         head-tag (-> doc (.select "head") (.first))]
-    (append-page-options-style-tag head-tag options)
-    (if (:include-base-css? options) (append-base-css-link-tag head-tag))
+    (append-page-options-style-tag! head-tag options)
+    (if (:include-base-css? options) (append-base-css-link-tag! head-tag))
     doc))