[webkit-dev] Using WebKit renderer to produce PDF output

[Ben Harper]

Unfortunately the platform is Windows. Regarding the method that
you're describing - I assume the PDF generation is handled by
CoreGraphics?

Ben

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> On May 13, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Ben Harper wrote:
>
>> I need to produce a tool that can generate PDFs from HTML. The best
>> solution I can think of is to use WebKit's layout engine, and plug my own
>> PDF generator in as a renderer backend. I don't want to reinvent the wheel
>> though - so I'm asking here has this been done already, or are there other
>> obvious solution out there that I'm missing?
>
> It depends what platform you’re talking about. The Mac OS X version of
> WebKit already offers this capability, since printing on Mac OS X is based
> on PDF. The PDFOperationWithView method of NSPrintOperation can work for
> this purpose.
>
>    -- Darin
>
>