Introduction

vue-pdf-export is a Vue + TypeScript HTML-to-PDF component and composable for browser applications.

The v1.1.1 release completes the reliability and compatibility foundation while preserving the existing public API.

It supports two rendering modes:

• Canvas mode - maximum HTML/CSS visual fidelity through html2pdf.js + html2canvas + jsPDF.
• Selectable text mode - browser-side vector PDF rendering with real selectable/searchable/copyable text, clickable PDF links, password protection, metadata, compression, page-aware headers/footers, and watermarks.

It also includes manual and automatic pagination, preview, download, native browser print, Blob/ArrayBuffer/Base64 output, export-only page/body styling, data-pdf-ignore, custom export CSS, external print stylesheets, forced light/dark themes, width auto-fit, safe filename normalization, progress stages, opt-in generation metrics, current-page progress, cancellation, page targeting, PDF permissions, SSR-safe imports, large-document optimizations, and advanced renderer configuration.

Default package behavior remains renderMode="canvas" for backwards compatibility. The live playground may choose a different default for demonstration purposes.

Highlights

• Browser-side PDF generation with no package-managed upload service
• Canvas and selectable-text rendering
• Blob, ArrayBuffer, raw Base64, and PDF data-URL output
• Native browser print support in both rendering modes
• Incremental page-by-page Canvas rendering when page-break markers are present
• Cooperative cancellation for long-running exports
• Page-aware progress with currentPage / totalPages
• Opt-in total, stage, and per-page generation timing metrics
• data-pdf-ignore for screen-only UI that must stay out of generated PDFs
• Export-only page/body styling without mutating the visible Vue DOM
• Repeated-image caching in selectable-text rendering
• Temporary DOM/canvas cleanup between expensive rendering steps
• Password protection, owner password, PDF permission flags, metadata, and compression
• Headers, footers, logos, watermarks, page targeting, and clickable links
• SSR-safe package imports with Nuxt 3 and Nuxt 4 validation
• Packed-consumer verification across npm, pnpm, Yarn, Yarn Plug'n'Play, and Bun
• Large-document stress presets from 5 through 1000 pages, plus custom counts