Hi

I've recently made use of the HTML => PDF lib and for the most part it's working beautifully, just wondered if there was a way to improve the speed.

I'm generating a 3 page PDF, as you would expect the fist execution of the generation takes much longer ~ 8 seconds due to the CLR & JIT compilation.

However, once the first PDF has been generated it's takes on average over 3.5 seconds to be generated. That's over 1 second per page!

I understood that you're making use of the WebKit engine to handle the rendering of the HTML.

If you are using the webkit engine. I would suggest the lagg is being caused, in part, by the initialisation of the webkit engine.

Is there any possibility for creating a service that initialises the engine once so that it can be re-used. Much the same as a browser has to do.

Take chrome/safari the initial load of the browser is relatively slow, webkit developers suggest this is caused by the initialisation of the webkit engine. When a URL is opened in new tab, or JavaScript is used to open a new tab & inject HTML into there's no lagg what so ever.

Many thanks
Andy

ETA : All of the URLs used in the PDFs are local resources using - a file:// URI