v7.0.0-beta

This is one of the biggest update - for React-PDF and for me personally. React-PDF has been rewritten from scratch using TypeScript and React Hooks. I've put a tremendous amount of effort to modernize the package without introducing any major breaking changes. If, however, something have slipped through 137 unit tests we have, please let me know. I hope you will like it.

❗️ = breaking change

What's new?

• Converted package to TypeScript (#1420).
• Rewritten package using React Hooks (#1370).
• Updated PDF.js to 3.6.172.
  • Preparations for editor mode support
  • Removed support for outdated browser versions
  • Font conversion/text selection improvements
  • Annotation improvements
  • Image rendering improvements that allow rendering big images even if they are larger than the canvas limits
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Improved overall performance
  • Reduced memory usage
  • Other features/bugfixes

What's changed?

• React-PDF is now considerably smaller.
• ❗️ Bundler-specific entry points are no longer provided. Don't worry though, the setup should be straightforward.
• ❗️ Dropped support for older browsers.
• ❗️ Removed legacy renderInteractiveForms prop

v6.2.2

Bug fixes

• Fixed rendering glitches on certain browsers & graphic cards (#1010).

v6.2.1

What's changed?

• Brought back pageIndex and pageNumber in customTextRenderer args that, despite undocumented, may have been used by some (#1190).
• Replace typeof window checks with typeof document checks to avoid Deno environment being falsely recognized as browser environment.

Bug fixes

• Fixed onItemClick callback working only once per item (#997, #1192).
• Fixed first annotation item not clickable (#1231).
• Fixed typos in documentation (#1227). Thanks, @flaxflour!

v6.2.0

What's new?

• Added support for devicePixelRatio prop in Page component.

Bug fixes

• Pass the actual itemIndex to the customTextRenderer (#1183). Thanks, @paescuj!

v6.1.1

Bug fixes

• Fixed text items misaligned when using customTextRenderer and if textContent items have both text and line break (#1173).

v6.1.0

What's new?

• Improved text selection behavior (#1034).

v6.0.3

Bug fixes

• Fixed customTextRenderer called too often and potentially with undefined str (#1151).
• Fixed text layer rendering twice when using React 18 w. StrictMode on.

v6.0.2

Bug fixes

• Fixed Vite specific entry causing fake worker to be initialized (#1148).

v6.0.1

Bug fixes

• Fixed Vite specific entry causing build to fail (#1148).

v6.0.0

See Upgrade guide from version 5.x to 6.x.

Note: React <16.8 is not supported. If you're still using React older than 16.8, please use react-pdf@^5.0.0 instead.

❗️ = breaking change

What's new?

• ❗️ Vastly improved performance and bundle size thanks to the modern version of PDF.js that is now used. This drops support for legacy browsers. See README for details.
• Added official support for Vite.
• Updated PDF.js to 2.16.105 (#1019).
  • Improvements for the text layer (space insertion)
  • Improvements for canvas rendering (thin line rendering)
  • Improvements for forms (printing/saving of choice lists)
  • Improvements for accessibility (sidebar and search results)
  • Bug fixes and optimizations, in particular for annotations, font/image conversion, SMask rendering, text layer rendering and TypeScript definitions
  • Performance improvements for rendering image masks, Type3 fonts and certain drawing instructions
  • Support for specifying custom background/foreground colors for rendering in the viewer (this will be soon be supported in React-PDF)
  • Bugfixes
  • Accessibility improvements
  • Rendering quality improvements.
• Improved documentation.
  • Fixed instructions on PDF.js worker
  • Added missing documentation on onRenderTextLayerError and onRenderTextLayerSuccess
  • Added a note on SVG mode deprecation.
• Refactored TextLayer to use pdfjs.renderTextLayer (#944).
  • Added support for onRenderTextLayerError prop
  • Added support for onRenderTextLayerSuccess prop.
• React-PDF now warns if required CSS files are not imported.

What's changed?

• ❗️ Minimum React version is now 16.8.
• ❗️ onGetTextSuccess is now called with an object containing items and styles.
• ❗️ TextLayer.css now must be imported manually for TextLayer to work properly.
• ❗️ Dropped support for React content in customTextRenderer (#1124).
• file-loader is now an optional peerDependency (#970). Thanks, @rpaasche!
• Improved documentation on Preact compatibility.
• Replaced merge-class-names with clsx.

Bug fixes

• Fixed crash when attempting to cancel rendering of PageCanvas.
• Fixed crash when text layer in PDFs rendered by React-PDF was used in Preact applications.
• Fixed legacy renderInteractiveForms prop ignored. Thanks, @liquidautumn!
• Fixed Page wrapper allowing to shrink causing children to overflow (#1118).