Re: Printing endpoint

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 2:11 PM James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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:
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> >> 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>
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> >> 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.
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> > 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?
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> 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.

OK, let's see what that dependency in WPT will end up looking like in
a future RFC.

Received on Thursday, 12 December 2019 13:20:22 UTC