How do I send a PDF file from the main process to the renderer process?

[hazy geyser]

pdfjs-dist gets a promise when you load a pdf file, which I'm trying to send to the renderer, but whatever I do, I always get error messages

[worn arch]

what is renderer.worker.js?

[hazy geyser]

It's some file in the pdfjs library

[worn arch]

then its problem with pdfjs?

[hazy geyser]

I think it throws an error because no valid promise was sent

[worn arch]

error say file not found

[hazy geyser]

Yeah, it can't load the file, and then maybe it still tries to perform some actions on the invalid file

I'm not sure

Are you aware of a way to store files of any kind in the main process such that they are accessible from the renderer?

I'd really like to get around sending files with ipc

[worn arch]

i dont understand

you can access files from main and from renderer same way

[hazy geyser]

You can?

[worn arch]

and work with fs same way as main

from preload

[hazy geyser]

Ah

[worn arch]

i dont think sending pdf file via ipc is a good way

[hazy geyser]

So preload a function that gets a file from the disk using a file path?

[worn arch]

preload is a file that have access to nodejs api

[hazy geyser]

Cool