art with code

2013-10-03

PDF export tweaks

I did a small tweak to Message's Print to PDF -feature. It now uses the CSS @page { size: 1920px 1080px; } attribute on Chrome to make you nice full HD PDF slides, and falls back to normal printing on Firefox.

What I'd really like to see is a way to save the page to a PDF from JavaScript with something like window.print('pdf'). It'd open a "Save as PDF"-dialog to save a PDF of the current page. In a nutshell, it'd be a shortcut to press the "Save as PDF"-button in the print dialog, with print annotations turned off and defaulting to zero margins.

I created a Chromium issue on that: DOM API for Save as PDF.

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