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graemep06/16/20251 replyview on HN

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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fredoralive06/16/2025

PDFkit seems to be a name a few different things in stuff like node and ruby. I think the Apple PDFkit is probably just wrapping Apple’s in house PDF tech that Preview uses?

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