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Are there any advantages to using Firefox over Chrome for exporting PDFs with Puppeteer?

• lol768 2y ago
  I've found Firefox to produce better PDFs than Chrome does, for what it's worth. There are some CSS properties that Chrome/Skia doesn't honour properly (e.g. repeating-linear-gradient) or ends up generating PDFs from that don't work universally.
  • freedomben 2y ago
    Indeed, Firefox uses PDF.js which I've found to produce really good results.
    • mook 2y ago
      Doesn't PDF.js go the other way (convert a PDF into HTML-and-friends for display in a browser, instead of "printing" a page into a PDF)? I haven't dug into it and am quite possibly incorrect, hence the request for confirmation!
      • freedomben 2y ago
        Ah damnit, yes you're correct. Too late to edit my comment though.
      • ak217 2y ago
        That is correct, pdfjs is not usable for printing. Chrome uses Skia for printing, not sure what Firefox uses.