pdfkit/CHANGELOG.md

A PDF generation library for Node.js

## pdfkit changelog

### Unreleased

### [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