CHANGELOG.md

pdfkit changelog

Unreleased

• Bump node version requirement to 20+
• Bump minimum supported browsers to Firefox 115, iOS/Safari 16
• Fix text with input x as null
• Add opacity option to doc.image() to control image transparency
• Fix corrupted PDF when mixing standard and embedded fonts that share postscript name
• Fix PDF/UA compliance issues in kitchen-sink-accessible example
• Add bbox and placement options to PDFStructureElement for PDF/UA compliance
• Extend roundedRect with borderRadius as number for all corners or per-corner array (CSS order)

[v0.18.0] - 2026-03-14

• Fix garbled text copying in Chrome/Edge for PDFs with >256 unique characters (#1659)
• Fix Link accessibility issues
• Fix Table Accessibility Issue: Operator CS/cs not allowed in this current state
• Fix Interlaced PNG with indexed transparency rendered incorrectly
• Fix SVG path parser incorrectly handle arc flags without separators
• Add pageLayout option to control how pages are displayed in PDF viewers
• Preserve existing PageMode instead of overwriting when adding outlines
• Add userUnit option for custom page units (PDF 1.6)
• Support outlines that jump to specific page positions with custom zoom level
• Add robust handling of null byte padding in JPEG images
• Replace outdated jpeg-exif with minimal implementation
• Replace outdated crypto-js with maintained small alternatives
• Fix issue with indentation with indentAllLines: true when a new page is created

[v0.17.2] - 2025-08-30

• Fix rendering lists that spans across pages

[v0.17.1] - 2025-05-02

• Fix null values in table cells rendering as [object Object]
• Fix further LineWrapper precision issues
• Optmize standard font handling. Less code, less memory usage

[v0.17.0] - 2025-04-12

• Fix precision rounding issues in LineWrapper
• Fix fonts without a postscriptName
• Add support for dynamic sizing
• Add support for rotatable text
• Fix page cascade options when text overflows
• Add table generation
• Fix y position when using image() without x and y coordinates
• Improve Prettier configuration

[v0.16.0] - 2024-12-29

• Update fontkit to 2.0
• Update linebreak to 1.1
• Add support for spot colors
• Add support to scale text horizontally
• Add an option to keep the indentation after a new line starts and allow to indent a whole paragraph/text element
• Add Name property for set custom icon for note()
• Fix sets tab order to "Structure" when a document is tagged
• Fix font cache collision for fonts with missing postscript name or bad TTF metadata or identical metadata for different fonts
• Fix for embedding fonts into PDF (font name must not contain spaces)
• Fix measuring text when OpenType features are passed in to .text()

[v0.15.2] - 2024-12-15

• Fix index not counting when rendering ordered lists (#1517)
• Fix PDF/A3 compliance of attachments
• Fix CIDSet generation only for PDF/A1 subset
• Fix missing acroform font dictionary
• Fix modify time comparison check equality embedded files

[v0.15.1] - 2024-10-30

• Fix browserify transform sRGB_IEC61966_2_1.icc file
• Fix time comparison check equality embedded files

[v0.15.0] - 2024-03-23

• Add subset for PDF/UA
• Fix for line breaks in list items (#1486)
• Fix for soft hyphen not being replaced by visible hyphen if necessary (#457)
• Optimize output files by ignoring identity transforms
• Fix for Acroforms - setting an option to false will still apply the flag (#1495)
• Fix for text extraction in PDFium-based viewers due to invalid ToUnicodeMap (#1498)
• Remove deprecated write method
• Drop support for Node.js < 18 and for browsers released before 2020

[v0.14.0] - 2023-11-09

• Add support for PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3a

• Update crypto-js to v4.2.0 (properly fix security issue)

• Add support for EXIF orientation on JPEG images (#626 and #1353)

[v0.13.0] - 2021-10-24

• Add tiling pattern support

[v0.12.3] - 2021-08-01

• Remove examples from published package

[v0.12.2] - 2021-08-01

• Fix for PDF accessibility check. (#1265)
• Allow applying 'underline' and 'strike' text styling together on a text
• Allow to specify the AcroForm text fontSize
• Update crypto-js to v4.0 (properly fix security issue)

[v0.12.1] - 2021-04-10

• Update crypto-js to v3.3 (fix security issue)
• Update fontkit to 1.8.1

[v0.12.0] - 2021-04-04

• Add support for Embedded Files and File Attachment Annotations
• Accessibility support
• Replace integration tests by visual regression tests
• Fix access permissions in PDF version 1.7ext3
• Fix Buffer() is deprecation warning
• Add forms.md to generate documentation files
• Fix "@" in FontName

[v0.11.0] - 2019-12-03

• Fix infinite loop when an individual character is bigger than the width of the text.
• Fix infinite loop when text is positioned after page right margin
• Allow links in continued text to be stopped by setting link to null
• Add support to interlaced PNG files
• Do not emit _interopDefault helper in commonjs build
• Fix gradient with multiple stops (#1045)
• Set link annotation flag to print by default
• Add support for AcroForms
• Drop support for (uncommon) cid less fonts on standalone build (reduces bundle size)

[v0.10.0] - 2019-06-06

• Fix links to pages within the document
• Add support for named destinations
• Throw errors when dash(...) is passed invalid lengths
• Remove PDFDocument#output method
• Add standalone build (js/pdfkit.standalone.js)

[v0.9.1] - 2019-04-30

• Fix setting printing permission
• Fix corruption of string objects in browser
• Add option to set default font
• Remove call to fontkit.openSync
• Add standalone virtual file system implementation
• Add option (fontLayoutCache) to disable font layout cache

[v0.9.0] - 2019-01-28

• Convert to code base from coffescript to ES6+
• Fix loading grayscale / transparent PNG files
• Reduce number of calls to async functions
• Implement encryption / access control