Re: Printing endpoint

On 12/12/2019 13:09, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:25 PM James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/12/2019 10:52, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>>> Would this be used only for automating PDF creation, or is there also a
>>> testing (WPT) side to it? +Luke Zielinski <mailto:lpz@google.com>
>>
>> Both are valuable; we want to make it possible to test paginated layout
>> and the working hypothesis is that the best way to do that is reftests
>> using the print rendering pipeline.
> 
> Would that work by rendering the PDF to an image using another tool,
> or should this endpoint be able to print directly to an image?
> 

I suspect the render-pdf-to-image — if useful at all — is only required 
for the wpt use case and is also something we can add in the wpt layer. 
So I don't think we should make that part of the spec in the absence of 
a signal from authors that it's functionality they require.

Received on Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:11:52 UTC