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ha, I'm also guilty of using this method on https://urlbox.io to power our SVG screenshots.

To be honest, it works quite well, but there are quite a few bugs in chromium's pdf rendering, especially when it comes to determining the correct page width to apply media queries to, which sometimes affects the accuracy of these SVG's.

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Me too.

I have found printing to PDF from Safari instead of Chrome yields better results when I have gone through the same process. It probably depends on the source material though.

If I remember correctly, the text was split into separate objects by Chrome to reproduce kerning offsets.

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