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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by eterps on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:06PM (#44966472)
How does it differ from https://weasyprint.org ?
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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by sammycage on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:23PM (#44966636)
WeasyPrint is great, but PlutoPrint takes a different angle: the engine is all C++, so it’s faster and lighter on memory. It can render directly to PNG as well as PDF, and has stronger SVG support.
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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by masfuerte on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:44PM (#44967291)
PlutoBook looks very impressive. Is it based on another renderer?
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Re:Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML wi... by skipnup on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:59AM (#44969872)
Doesn't look like it:

> PlutoBook depends on the following external libraries:

> Required: cairo, freetype, harfbuzz, fontconfig, expat, icu

> Optional: curl, turbojpeg, webp (enable additional features)

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