PDF from html

I have a large volume of html (currently PDF'ing to around 250 pages) that is generated dynamically.
My question is a simple one but it's driving me to distraction.
How can I control the formtting in the resulting PDF. I'm not asking for anything complex here. I want 12pt body text and everything else relative sized based on em size.
I've tried setting font-size:12pt in body and in a content wrapper div. I've tried it in embedded style sheets and in style attributes.
I've tried create from html in Acrobat 11 pro, print to pdf, save as pdf in chrome and webkit html2pdf on the server. in each case the font is resized to whatever Acrobat thinks is the best fit.
So, yesterday my output was at 11.5pt today it's 12.5 although both are rendered identically on screen and firebug and chrome dev tools both show the text to be set to 12pt prior to output.
I suspect that the culprit here are images and that acrobat 'for my convenience' is automagically resizing to get what it thinks (wrongly) is best fit
Any ideas?

I get what you are saying, but I have no choice over source. The info is an export from a Content Mangement System - several hundred individual web pages that are consolidated into a single lump of html. The native CMS export to word and export to PDF are both very poor for anything other than single pages.
I was hoping to avoid XSL, but accept that it may be my only option - it's years since I've wrestled with that particular nightmare - hopefully there are some tools to make it easier now and I have never created a pdf from xsl formatted xml.
On your second point, yes, once a pdf is created then its font size is fixed, no problem there. The issue is that I can't see any way to fix the size at the point of creation and really, that's the crux of this request - I just want to be able to say to Acrobat that the base font size for this document is 12pt.
Practical example - I run an export yesterday - the body font size is set to something like 11.5pt by Acrobat (despite iit being set to 12pt in the css) but I can live with that as long as it's consistent. Tomorrow, I run it again. A user has added a new image (or any width-settable element) to a page that is maybe 60pixels wider than the pervious largest and the body text throughout the pdf is now 10.5pt.
I understand that this is Acrobat trying to be clever and scaling the text to accommodate the largest element, but I'd much rather tell it to respect the css and truncate or scale the element that doesn't fit - that would be so much easier to troubleshoot

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