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Chrome definitely does not render text or other vectors like SVG as an image.

I just tried printing the Hacker News front page to PDF in Edge which is the same engine as Chrome and the text was selectable.

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Most of the time. I'm using Chrome via Puppeteer to generate PDF reports, and I've seen certain CSS rules make it render pages (or parts of them) as images. One of them was `transform` I think.

Yes transform may rasterize the content in order to transform it say as a GPU operation this is regardless of printing, this will be noticeable as blurry text and vectors on HiDpi displays.

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