cAtte_ 6 months ago

firefox uses pdf.js, but chromium uses pdfium and safari uses pdfkit

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  • graemep 6 months ago

    PDFkit seems similar in that it is JS. Is it also slow?

    I just tried a few PDFs in Chromium and PDFium seems to be much better than pdf.js - faster and handles forms more smoothly.

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    • fredoralive 6 months ago

      PDFkit seems to be a name a few different things in stuff like node and ruby. I think the Apple PDFkit is probably just wrapping Apple’s in house PDF tech that Preview uses?

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      • graemep 6 months ago

        It does not seem to have any requirements than JS - browser or Node. There is an online demo that works with Firefox on Linux so not wrapping anything else.

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        • cAtte_ 6 months ago

          the pdfkit from the first google result doesn't seem to be related to apple's. what happened here is that "pdfkit" is a very generic name (that will tend to show up because people love writing pdf-related software) that also happens to coincide with apple's convention of naming their frameworks something-kit (uikit, appkit, avkit, ...)

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