How react-pdf renders text
Six steps sit between a <Text> element and a glyph on the page, and none of them are the ones you would guess. A visual tour of the textkit pipeline.
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Releases, design notes and announcements from the react-pdf project.
Large documents in the browser
Why a big document locks up your UI, and how to move the whole render into a web worker so it doesn't.
Dropping the pdfkit fork
React-pdf shipped its own copy of pdfkit for eight years. The story of why that happened, and how we finally got rid of it.
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Creating PDF Files Without Slowing Down Your App
Simon Hessel on running react-pdf inside a web worker, so generating a large document stops blocking the UI.
How react-pdf renders a document
There is no browser in here. A walk through the six steps that turn a React element tree into a PDF file, and why they happen in that order.
Announcing react-pdf v2.0
A full reimplementation of the library, backwards compatible with v1. The ideas behind v2 and the problems it solves.