feat: printPdfBase64()

[davequested]

Plugin(s)

• Android Battery Optimization
• Android Dark Mode Support
• Android Edge-to-Edge Support
• Android Foreground Service
• App Review
• App Shortcuts
• App Update
• Asset Manager
• Background Task
• Badge
• Bluetooth Low Energy
• Cloudinary
• Datetime Picker
• File Compressor
• File Opener
• File Picker
• Live Update
• Managed Configurations
• NFC
• Photo Editor
• Posthog
• Printer
• Screen Orientation
• Screenshot
• Speech Recognition
• Speech Synthesis
• Torch
• Zip

Current problem

We're retrieving a PDF as base64 from an API and wanted to be able to directly print that on the device without having to save it to the device first. Saving to the FileSystem would require another plugin and dealing with permissions which the user may deny.

Preferred solution

Consider adding printPdfBase64() as a method to your @capawesome-team/capacitor-printer plugin.

Alternative options

No response

Additional context

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[robingenz]

Thank you for your request. While we always recommend not using Base64 to prevent OOM issues (see here), I can see that such a method would be handy for small files. I'll add this to the roadmap.

[davequested]

Thanks Robin, yes our use-case is very small PDFs (invoices, packing slips, etc). Thanks for considering.