Why another PDF library?
Most PDF libraries carry features 90% of users never need. podpdf focuses on the essentials: text, tables, shapes, images, and multi-page documents.
Key specs:
~9KB minified (13KB for plus version)
Zero runtime dependencies
Native TypeScript
Works in Node.js, Bun, and browsers
Fluent chainable API
Performance:
Benchmarked at 0.033ms per simple document vs 0.271ms for jsPDF — that's 5.5x faster.
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