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Node DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.

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Describe the bug

A depreciation warning about Buffer() is shown when a pdf has been rendered. In the future Node versions, Buffer() will be removed. Which will broke the rendering process.

To Reproduce

Have Node v10.15.3 or more.

Render a new pdf.
Open the browser console.
See the warning.

Screenshots Untitled

Desktop:

OS: Windows
Browser: Chromium (Electron)
@react-pdf/renderer: 1.5.4,
@react-pdf/styled-components: 1.4.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

Reg011commented, May 6, 2019

I’d be willing to solve this issue myself in a near future.

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Reg011commented, Aug 19, 2019

@joernroeder See https://github.com/react-pdf/fontkit/pull/6#issuecomment-494450210

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