/pdfgo

Primary LanguageGo

PDF Go

PDF Go is a powerful, open source, PDF generation library for the Go programming language.

Feature

  • Powerful layout engine

    • Page layers (great for watermarks)
    • horizontal and vertical stacks
    • Page headers and footers
    • Automatically wrap content over multiple pages

  • Comprehensive text rendering

    • Text styles (italic, bold, color, line height etc)
    • Fonts manager including system fonts (yes, color emoji support 😍)
    • Font family substitutions (fallback)
    • Font subsetting (reduce PDF file size)
    • Font shaping (support Arabic fonts)
    • Right-to-left (RTL) content (Note: WIP)
    • Page numbering

  • Customizable styling

    • Background colors
    • Container border styles, including corner radius

  • ...

Usage

This project is a WIP; no release has been made, and is pre-v0.1

Example

type myDoc struct {}

func (d *myDoc) Build(b *pdf.Doc) {
	d.Page(func(page *pdf.Page) {
        page.Content().
            Text("PDF Go").FontSize(64)
    }
}

func main() {
	f, _ := os.Create("output.pdf")
	defer f.Close()
	pdf.Generate(f, &myDoc{})
}

Acknowledgements

This library is has been inspired by the great work done by Marcin Ziąbek and the QuestPDF community.