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firefox uses pdf.js, but chromium uses pdfium and safari uses pdfkit


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graemep06/16/2025

PDFkit seems similar in that it is JS. Is it also slow?

I just tried a few PDFs in Chromium and PDFium seems to be much better than pdf.js - faster and handles forms more smoothly.

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