Comments on: Mozilla Embedding API – Status

By: Robert O'Callahan

Robert O'Callahan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:54:11 +0000

Rendering to arbitrary cairo targets — PDF, PS, SVG, etc — is supported internally. It would be great to have the embedding API expose that.

By: Pawel Kondzior

Pawel Kondzior — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:20:51 +0000

Well gecko uses cairo as it’s rendering library, and cairo can easy render to pdf. So i thnik it would be awesome to have api that will render web page into pdf file without running browser.

By: Pawe? Kondzior

Pawe? Kondzior — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:18:23 +0000

I think gecko as pdf rendering engine with html/css as it’s base api could be pretty awesome tool.

By: Mark Finkle

Mark Finkle — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:17:43 +0000

@Collin Allen – The image types supported are only those that Mozilla can already encode: PNG, JPEG (for now)

By: Collin Allen

Collin Allen — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:53:32 +0000

Cool, I’m excited for the JS execution and rendering to an image. Is there any hope for PDF or PostScript rendering? It would be fabulous to be able to programmatically fetch a PDF of a given page, rendered using Gecko.