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).

v6.0.0-beta.6

What's changed?

• Replaced merge-class-names with clsx.
• Reverted "Removed dependency on @babel/runtime.".

v6.0.0-beta.5

❗️ = breaking change

What's new?

• Added official support for Vite.
• Removed dependency on @babel/runtime.

What's changed?

• ❗️ Dropped support for React content in customTextRenderer (#1124).

Bug fixes

• Fixed Page wrapper allowing to shrink causing children to overflow (#1118).

v6.0.0-beta.4

What's new?

• Updated PDF.js to 2.16.105.
  • 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.
• React-PDF now warns if required CSS files are not imported.

What's changed?

• Removed support for enhanceTextSelection prop. This was previously implemented in 6.0.0-beta, but later found deprecated in PDF.js.

Bug fixes

• Fixed legacy renderInteractiveForms prop ignored. Thanks, @liquidautumn!