replace wkhtmltopdf with chrome

[maharshivpatel]

for a while, I have been doing a lot of workarounds, limiting features of print designer etc because wkhtmltopdf doesn't support modern CSS.

Also, a lot of stuff breaks and there is no way to debug such as content broken between pages. e.g. div inside span is possible in Chrome ( modern ) browser but will automatically escape out of span in wkhtmltopdf.

There are a lot of such cases and I have realised that if I combine time spent on such workarounds plus more that I have to spend in the future is less than what I will spend replacing wkhtmltopdf.

This was on my list for almost a year so finally I will be working on it.

[win8linux]

As mentioned originally in frappe/frappe#27595:

wkhtmltopdf has stopped development and its Git repo has been archived since 2023. Packages for it are beginning to fall behind that of Linux distributions, even with those that are not on a rolling release schedule. Additionally, having an unmaintained dependency that relies on a defunct QtWebKit web engine fork creates a large and porous attack surface.

[rmcdonald01]

How will we be notified when the change to Chrome has been made?

[1ubuntuuser]

How is this one going? Seems to be a major refactor. Is this happening offline?