I Kept Rebuilding PDF Features in Vue 3, So I Built vue3-pdf-export

In a recent project, I found myself repeatedly rebuilding PDF generation capabilities for Vue 3 applications. This experience led to the creation of vue3-pdf-export, an open-source Vue 3 + TypeScript package designed for generating PDFs directly from HTML in browser applications. The package offers a wide range of features including pagination, preview, headers, footers, watermarks, security, metadata, compression, and more.

The main motivation behind vue3-pdf-export was to provide a cleaner and more complete solution that could be reused across various Vue 3 projects, saving developers time and effort. The package supports automatic and manual pagination, customizable headers and footers with various options, watermarks, PDF security features, metadata inclusion, compression, and progress reporting for large PDF generation.

The library also reports numeric progress and generation stages, making it easier to build loading UIs. The goal was to offer a Vue-oriented layer around existing libraries like html2pdf.js, html2canvas, and jsPDF, while still providing access to advanced options when needed. The package includes automated tests and browser testing across Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit.

The current release is vue3-pdf-export v0.2.0, which includes improvements in trusted HTML headers and footers, logo rendering, and PDF generation testing.