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Add selectable text mode for generated PDFs

Saurabh Choudhary

Currently, PDF content is generated using a canvas-based rendering approach, so the text is not selectable.
It would be useful to have an optional selectable-text rendering mode for cases where users need to search, copy, or select text inside the generated PDF.
The existing canvas mode could remain the default for better visual fidelity, while selectable-text mode could be enabled as an optional feature.

A week ago

Saurabh Choudhary

Implemented in the latest minor release ✅
Selectable-text rendering is now available as an optional mode while the existing canvas renderer remains the default for maximum visual fidelity.
The new text mode generates real searchable/selectable PDF text instead of rasterizing the entire document body.
To make this possible, the selectable-text renderer is based on and adapted from @timkozlov/html-to-pdf, with thanks to Canelex for the original browser DOM-to-vector-PDF work. We vendor and integrate that renderer inside vue3-pdf-export so it can work with the package’s existing API and features.
On top of that renderer, we added package-specific integration for:
password-protected PDFs and PDF permissions
selectable header/footer/page-number text
clickable PDF links
existing .html2pdf__page-break compatibility
metadata and compression
shared header/footer/watermark processing
related rendering and pagination fixes
Usage:
renderMode="canvas" - maximum CSS fidelity
renderMode="text" - selectable/searchable vector text
Canvas mode remains the default, so existing users are not forced onto the new renderer.
This feature is now shipped.

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