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by Wilya 3220 days ago
The old school solutions lack any sort of javascript support (per the docs, htmldoc doesn't even support css), so they wouldn't work for a lot of real world websites. That's not really the same use case.

A better comparison would be against the likes of wkhtmltopdf[0], which uses webkit, or the pdf generation features of phantomjs.

[0] https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

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https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues

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Yep, that's about how I remember it. It was such a pain to build on Windows (especially to get a single static binary) that people contributing fixes would often attain hero status by attaching a random binary to an issue. Specifically, GIF support was broken on the official Windows build for 4+ years:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140917181225/http://code.googl...