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FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

It's a useful tool (and huge thanks to those who built it -- and SlimerJS for that matter) but whenever I've reached for there's always been some issue to resolve, generally relating to the exact version and/or set of APIs supported. Headless mode (with PDF support -- which it looks like the latest version of the Chromium remote protocol does indeed have) built into a mainstream browsers is nearly guaranteed to be a smoother experience.

> FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

It's based on webkit.

Once upon a time, but not anymore.

https://www.chromium.org/blink

PhantomJS is based on webkit (and an outdated version IIRC + a shitty JS interpreter)

Also with https://wkhtmltopdf.org/ and http://pandoc.org/

Tried all of these and haven't found any as good as http://www.nightmarejs.org/

Thats just phantomJS though..

It switched to Electron under the hood a while back.

And, if you need much higher fidelity and control of HTML/CSS -> PDF, there's the fantastic Prince library, http://princexml.com/ (nonfree)

(I've been using Prince for over a decade, rendering everything from prescription labels, packing slips, receipts, resumes, books, and more. It's great.)

That's also an API service, http://docraptor.com, with a different pricing model that uses the Prince library for PDF rendering.

specifically it's qtwebkit and an old version of it.

They recently released a beta version based on a newer version of QtWebKit:

https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/

Tough crowd.

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