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📢 BREAKING: Trump Imposes Tariffs on Exporting to PDF

📢 BREAKING: Trump Imposes Tariffs on Exporting to PDF

TODAY – Washington, D.C.
In a stunning turn of events, President Donald Trump has announced a "big, beautiful tariff" on all exports to PDF from Salesforce orgs, citing unfair trade practices by "document-generating countries" and "rogue third-party apps."

“Too many PDFs. Too fast. Too formatted,” Trump declared. “We're gonna make printing great again — real paper, American paper.”

In the wake of the U.S.-imposed PDF export tariffs, Canada and Mexico have emerged as unexpected global leaders in offshore document rendering.

Mexico has responded swiftly with a new national initiative: “Impresión Sin Fronteras”, which translates to “Printing Without Borders.” Early reports show Salesforce consultants near the U.S. border opening small PDF-processing shops in refurbished taco stands.

Admins everywhere are advised to: Delay all quote generation until further notice and rename all existing PDFs to .docx

Rumors are swirling that Elon Musk is developing a “next-gen document format” called .XPLR — a blend of JSON, Markdown, and SVG — claiming it will “replace those boring PDFs and emails in one go.”

Veteran developers and hackers from the People's Republic of China already found a loophole though: you can still export to PDFs using VisualForce <apex:page renderAs="pdf">

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