Changelog

Roadmap

In Progress 🚀

Add common Instance APIs such as page navigation, zoom in/out, print and download
Add common annotation layers such as Text, Highlight, Polygon, StrikeOut and Underline
Improve on toolbar customization capability

Pipeline ✍️

Add support for XFA layer
Add support for right-to-left (RTL) layout
Add Bookmark of pages or sections in a page for easy navigation

Under Consideration 💡

Comment annotation tool
Search "whole word(s)" option in the PDF document
Display custom watermark in downloaded PDF document

Update

v1.5.0 (29 October 2024)

✨ What's New:
- Added Instance APIs for the following functions:
  - Page navigation
  - Print
  - Document rotation
- Added Interfaces to access
  - Canvas object
  - Viewer viewport
⚡ Enhancements:
- Improve on the display of PDF documents with annotation layers
  - Caret and Ink
  - Circle and Square
  - Free text
  - Highlight
  - Line
  - Link
  - Polygon and Polyline
  - Popup
  - Squiggly
  - StrikeOut
  - Underline
  - File attachment
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Fixed invisible tooltips when rendering multiple PDF viewer components
- Fixed current document display when uploading certain types of PDF documents

v1.4.4 (25 October 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- When changing PDF file, last file will be displayed briefly before showing the new file

v1.4.3 (10 October 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- No content is displayed in print preview when using createObjectURL() and passing in pdf via api
- Print preview does not print the actual prepared PDF pages because they are removed before window.print() completes successfully

v1.4.2 (7 October 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- When opening a local file and selecting ‘Print,’ the default document would still be displayed instead of the selected file

v1.4.1 (4 October 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Printed file is based on the zoom level of Vue PDF Viewer component
- Hyperlink on the PDF document is not clickable
- The TextLayer class does not exist in pdfjs-dist versions below 4.x.x.
- Non-existent hyperlinks causing in PDF document TypeError - Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'dest')

v1.4.0 (27 September 2024)

✨ What's New:
- Added Instance APIs for the search control function
⚡ Enhancements:
- Improve on the zooming in/out experience
- Improve on the scrolling experience with trackpad or mouse

v1.3.0 (19 September 2024)

✨ What's New:
- Added different methods of PDF document scrolling such as page scrolling, vertical scrolling and horizontal scrolling
- Added page view modes of single to dual pages
⚡ Enhancements:
- Improve search experience with respect to highlight and scrolling

v1.2.0 (5 September 2024)

✨ What's New:
- Added built-in translations to Vue PDF Viewer's functions, including a function to add a custom language

v1.1.2 (22 August 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Focus outline in thumbnail view is being overlapped by thumbnails
⚡ Enhancements:
- Added a focus state variable for focus outline that can be changed by overriding --vpv-outline-color

v1.1.1 (16 August 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Responsive view triggering incorrect at 818px instead of 768px
⚡ Enhancements:
- Allow more flexibility in changing icons in the toolbar
- Added container-width-sm to allow for overriding responsive view trigger point at a different component width

v1.1.0 (12 August 2024)

✨ What's New:
- Added keyboard navigation for major operations such as open file, page navigation, zoom level and print
- Allow password-protected PDF file to be opened on the Vue PDF Viewer component
⚡ Enhancements:
- Updated the default version of pdfjs-dist (peer dependency) from 3.11.174 to 4.4.168
- Added VPVBaseProps constant which provides default values of the VPV component

v1.0.4 (2 August 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Text selection not working when page is rotated
- Thumbnail not displaying the correct page when rotate or zoom buttons are clicked
⚡ Enhancements:
- Improve page scroll when page up or down button is clicked consecutively

v1.0.3 (26 July 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Highlighted text from the search function displays in the incorrect position when the document is rotated
- Thumbnails do not follow the scroll when clicking "go to the first page" or "go to the last page"
- Thumbnail scroll does not follow page scroll if thumbnail is not yet loaded
- No horizontal scrollbar appears when zooming in
- Unable to click links in the PDF after rotation

v1.0.2 (23 July 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Thumbnail does not change to landscape mode when file is rotated

v1.0.1 (23 July 2024)

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a dead link in the README

v1.0.0

🚀 Launched first stable release

v0.9.2

⚡ Enhancements:
- Increased scroll speed when changing page via thumbnails
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Vue pdf viewer style should not override project style

v0.9.1

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Scrolling not working correctly
- Rotate thumbnails when page is rotate
- Added caching to prevent thumbnails from reloading when scrolled

v0.9.0

✨ What's New:
- Added progress bar to display status when print function is triggered
- Added search function to search by keywords in page
- Added theme function to switch between light and dark themes
- Added different predefined zoom modes
- Added ability to open a file from local device directly in PDF viewer
- Allow developers to use different version of PDF.js
🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Increased spacing between icons for correct display

v0.8.8

🐛 Bug Fixes:
- Prevent page from returning to first when zooming

v0.8.7

✨ What's New:
- Added page rotation to rotate page clockwise/anti-clockwise
- Added page navigation to move back and forth across pages
- Added download function to download the PDF file
- Added page zoom function to zoom in/out
- Added print function to print the PDF document
- Added support for displaying of PDF in different languages
- Added page loader when a page in the PDF document is still loading
- Allow setting of initial PDF page displayed when the viewer is first loaded
- Allow setting of initial rotation and zoom of the PDF document when the viewer is first loaded