fschutt/printpdf
Rust / WASM library for reading, writing and rendering PDF
Recommended between 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-26. Last pushed 2026-10-31.
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“was already developed with tons of fixes over years (both with and without AI). MIT license and also builds on WASM with a demo running on”
— fschuett, 2026-10-26 · strong recommendation · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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Why do people try to vibecode PDF engines that already exist in Rust? https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide which this project builds on completely misses https://github.com/fschutt/printpdf which was already developed with tons of fixes over years (both with and without AI). MIT license and also builds on WASM with a demo running on https://fschutt.github.io/printpdf/ One Google search (yeah I'm old, sorry, nobody "Googles" anymore) for "rust pdf library" shows this. Yet people now redo and redo and redo everything again just to have "their" semi-broken copy of a HTML -> PDF renderer (and then run into the same edge cases that were already fixed before). There are lots of edge cases in ty…
“was already developed with tons of fixes over years (both with and without AI).”
— tchalla, 2026-10-26 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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> https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide which this project builds on completely misses https://github.com/fschutt/printpdf which was already developed with tons of fixes over years (both with and without AI). MIT license and also builds on WASM with a demo running on https://fschutt.github.io/printpdf/ It seems like fschutt/printpdf is your project. You should definitely at least disclose it in your comment, if that's the case.
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