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A step-by-step PDF writer.

Last release 4 months ago
27 May 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 8 days to 8 months
Some releases are documented
notes for 10 of 24 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
5 years old
24 releases · first in 2021

Release timeline

24 releases since 2021

202120222023202420252026

20212026

One column per quarter.

Releases

0.15.027 May 2026Breaking
The Primitive trait is now sealed (Breaking change)
Added Settings struct with writing configuration

Added Chunk::{with_settings, with_settings_and_capacity}

Added Pdf::{with_settings, with_settings_and_capacity}

Added Content::{with_settings, with_settings_and_capacity}

Added Content::reserve and Chunk::reserve

Added Content::{len, as_bytes}

Added Pdf::{finish_with_xref_stream, finish_with_xref_stream_and_filter}

Added XRefFilter type

The Primitive trait is now sealed (Breaking change)
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0.14.02 Oct 2025Breaking
Allowed writing PDF 2.0 form of the CSS 1 and 2 attribute owners by adding a parameter to Attributes::owner (Breaking change)
Added PDF 2.0 Tagged PDF and document structure features

Added capability to use structure namespaces

Added PDF 2.0 structure roles with their relations to PDF 1.7 structure roles

Added capability to specify the pronunciation for structure tree elements

Added StructElement::refs to write the /Ref key, specifying structure elements this element refers to

Added PDF 2.0 attribute owners Artifact, HTML-5.00, CSS-3, RDFa-1.10, ARIA-1.1, NSO

Allowed writing PDF 2.0 form of the CSS 1 and 2 attribute owners by adding a parameter to Attributes::owner (Breaking change)

Added ArtifactAttributes writer

Added LayoutAttributes::text_position to write the /TextPosition attribute

Added ListAttributes::continued_list and ListAttributes::continued_from to write the /ContinuedList and /ContinuedFrom attributes

Added TableAttributes::short to write the /Short attribute

Added PDF 2.0 variants to ListNumbering enum (Breaking change)

Added boolean parameter to FieldAttributes::checked to use the PDF 2.0 serialization

Added variant ListBox to FieldRole enum (Breaking change)

Added capability to associate a file with the structure tree root

Added the PDF/UA-2 attribute owner FENote and the FENoteAttributes writer

Added the missing H structure role from PDF 1.7 (Breaking change)

Added default values based on the spec to applicable enums

Added the capability to write Auto as a value of LayoutAttributes::glyph_orientation_vertical. The signature of the function changed to accommodate the new data type (Breaking change)

Added the capability to write text strings with language escape sequences using TextStrWithLang. For this purpose, many writer methods that previously accepted TextStr as an argument now accept an implementor of the TextStrLike trait (TextStr and TextStrWithLang, Breaking change)

Added a mechanism to retrieve the category of a structure role

Added PDF 2.0 variants to AssociationKind enum (Breaking change)

Fixed a bug where the BlockAlign enum contained the variant Begin instead of Before (Breaking change)

Fixed a bug where AttributeOwner::User was serialized to UserDefined instead of the correct UserProperties

Fixed an inconsistency where attributes allowing either one or multiple values for each side of a rectangle only exposed one of the APIs. Affected attributes are BorderColor and TPadding (allowed only one side) as well as BorderStyle, BorderThickness, Padding, and TBorderStyle (forced writing all four sides) (Breaking change)

Fixed a typo in the API: AppearanceCharacteristics::alterante_caption has been renamed to alternate_caption (Breaking change)

Fixed an inconsistency where attributes allowing either one or multiple values for each track in a column container only exposed the latter API. Affected attributes are ColumnWidths and ColumnGap (Breaking change)

Fixed a bug where LayoutAttributes::line_height could not be used because the LineHeight struct was not exported

0.13.02 Apr 2025Breaking

Content::finish , UnicodeCmap::finish , and PostScriptOp::encode now return a Buf (Breaking change)

Added infrastructure for tracking PDF implementation limits
- Added Buf type
- Added Limits type
- Added Chunk::{limits, merge_limits}
- Content::finish, UnicodeCmap::finish, and PostScriptOp::encode now return a Buf (Breaking change)
The GlyphId trait is now properly public

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0.12.14 Feb 2025

PostScript operations are now space- instead of newline-delimited

PostScript operations are now space- instead of newline-delimited
Added StructElement::id
Added ViewerPreferences::display_doc_title
Fixed DecodeParms::colors writing the wrong name
Fixed DeveloperExtension writing the wrong /Type

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0.12.030 Sept 2024Breaking

Added additional PageMode s (Breaking change)

Added Content::state_nesting_depth, which can be used to get the q/Q nesting depth for PDF implementation limit compliance
Added association_kind method to FileSpec
Added AssociationKind enum
Added associated_files to Annotation, Catalog, Page, ImageXObject, and FormXObject
Added embedded_file_with_unicode to FileSpec
Added additional PageModes (Breaking change)
Fixed return type of Chunk::refs (from impl IntoIterator to impl ExactSizeIterator, so maybe not actually breaking?)

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0.11.04 Sept 2024Breaking

Fixed return type of Catalog::output_intents ( Breaking change )

Added Pdf::set_binary_marker (thanks to @LaurenzV)
Added Chunk::refs (thanks to @LaurenzV)
Added Catalog::associated_files (thanks to @NiklasEi)
Added FontDescriptor::{style, descriptor_override, cid_set}
Added FontDescriptorOverride type and methods
Added CjkClass and WMode enums
Added Cmap::{writing_mode, use_cmap_stream, use_cmap_predefined}
Added UnicodeCmap::with_writing_mode
Added lots of documentation about PDF/A compliance
Fixed return type of Catalog::output_intents (Breaking change)

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0.10.01 Jun 2024Breaking

Fixed Page::annotations , which shall contain indirect references ( Breaking change , thanks to @tingerrr )

Added support for interactive forms (thanks to @tingerrr), specifically
- Widget annotations
- Trigger events
- Field dictionaries
- Form field types
- Interactive form dictionaries
Added support for videos and multimedia (thanks to @awehrfritz)
Added Chunk::destination (thanks to @Heinenen)
Added support for decode parameters
Fixed Page::annotations, which shall contain indirect references (Breaking change, thanks to @tingerrr)

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0.9.317 Apr 2024

This release makes UnicodeCmap generic with a default to u16 to fix writing of CMaps for Type 3 and other simple fonts, which support just 256 glyphs.

This release makes UnicodeCmap generic with a default to u16 to fix writing of CMaps for Type 3 and other simple fonts, which support just 256 glyphs.

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0.9.21 Nov 2023

This release adds an as_bytes function the Chunk type (thanks to @cmoog ).

This release adds an as_bytes function the Chunk type (thanks to @cmoog).

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0.9.124 Oct 2023

This release fixes a bug with string writing introduced in the previous version. The bug affected the writing of invisible ASCII characters that have

This release fixes a bug with string writing introduced in the previous version. The bug affected the writing of invisible ASCII characters that have one of the two high bits set (only DEL).

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0.9.04 Oct 2023