0.6.1

🐍 Official Python 3.12 compatibility

0.6.0

Added

• 🧮 Paragraphs can be optimally typeset using the Knuth-Plass line
  breaking algorithm. Use the optimal argument for this.
• 🛟 Paragraphs support automatically avoiding orphaned lines with
  avoid_orphans argument.

Breaking

• 📊 In the rare case that a paragraphs contains different text sizes,
  all lines now rendered with the same leading.
  This is more consistent and allows for faster layouting.

Fixed

• 🐍 Fix compatibility with Python 3.8 and 3.9

0.5.0

Added

• 📰 Support for horizontal alignment and justification of text.
• 🫸 Support for indenting the first line of a paragraph.
• ✂️ Automatic hyphenation of text.

Breaking

• 🪆 Expose most classes from submodules instead of root (e.g. pdfje.Rect becomes pdfje.draw.Rect). The new locations can be found in the API documentation.
• Rule padding attribute renamed to margin.

0.4.0

A big release with lots of new features and improvements.
Most importantly, the page layout engine is now complete and
can be used to create multi-page/column documents.

Added

• 📖 Automatic layout of multi-style text into lines, columns, and pages
• 🔬 Automatic kerning for supported fonts
• 🖌️ Support for drawing basic shapes
• 🎨 Additional text styling options
• 📦 Make FontTools dependency optional
• 📏 Horizontal rule element

Documentation

• 🧑‍🏫 Add a tutorial and examples
• 📋 Polished docstrings in public API

Performance

• ⛳️ Document pages and fonts are now written in one efficient pass

Breaking

• 🌅 Drop Python 3.7 support

0.3.0

Added

• 🍰 Documents can be created directly from string input
• 🪜 Support for explicit newlines in text
• 📢 Document.write() supports paths, file-like objects and iterator output
• ✅ Improved PDF spec compliance

Changed

• 📚 Text is now positioned automatically within a page

0.2.0

Added

• 🖌️ Different builtin fonts can be selected
• 📥 Truetype fonts can be embedded
• 🌏 Support for non-ASCII text
• 📐 Pages can be rotated
• 🤏 Compression is applied to keep filesize small

0.1.0

Added

• 💬 Support for basic ASCII text on different pages

0.0.1

Added

• 🌱 Write a valid, minimal, empty PDF file