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2026-04-25 10:03
Introducing fulgur: a blazing fast HTML-to-PDF engine in Rust — no browser required
fulgur — (noun, Latin) lightning, flash of lightning.
I've been building fulgur, an HTML-to-PDF engine written in Rust. No headless browser, no Chromium, no WebKit — just an HTML parser, a layout engine, and a PDF writer, glued together with a pagination layer.
The current numbers (v0.5.14, 200-page document):
190 ms end-to-end
57 MB peak memory
Byte-identical PDF output across runs
This...