GraphCompose v1.8.0 — "illustrative" is out

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The banner above is itself a GraphCompose document — rendered by the engine from the same DSL you'd use in your app. View the source deck (PDF).

GraphCompose v1.8.0 — "illustrative" is out

v1.8.0 is live on Maven Central — the "illustrative" release. The theme: vector graphics as a first-class authoring primitive — charts, SVG, and gradients drawn straight into the PDF, no rasterization.

• Native vector charts — bar / line / pie with inline sparklines and MONOTONE / SMOOTH line interpolation, drawn as native PDF Béziers: section.chart(ChartSpec.bar().data(...), style).
• SVG path & icon import — SvgIcon.parse(svg) turns SVG into native vector geometry; recolour per use and place with addSvgIcon(icon, width, align).
• Gradients & free-form clipping — linear / radial DocumentPaint fills and arbitrary ShapeOutline.Path clip regions.
• Block-level alignment — addAligned(HorizontalAlign.CENTER, node) centres or right-aligns any fixed node, no wrapper container.
• keepTogether() pagination — keep a section from splitting across a page break.
• Leaner publication — the bundled Google fonts moved to the independently-versioned graph-compose-fonts artifact, so the engine jar dropped from ~20 MB to ~2 MB.

Verify gate: 1398 / 0 / 0 / 0. Examples regenerate cleanly. Core document APIs stay source- and binary-compatible with 1.7 (japicmp gate on every PR); the only consumption changes are the fonts split and the removal of ConfigLoader.

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.demchaav</groupId>
    <artifactId>graph-compose</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.0</version>
</dependency>

Want the bundled fonts? Add graph-compose-fonts:1.0.0, or depend on the all-in-one graph-compose-bundle:1.8.0.

• Release notes — https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose/releases/tag/v1.8.0
• Maven Central — https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/io.github.demchaav/graph-compose/1.8.0
• Fonts migration (v1.8.0) — https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose/blob/v1.8.0/docs/migration/v1.8.0-fonts.md
• Live showcase — https://demchaav.github.io/GraphCompose/
• Examples gallery — https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose/blob/v1.8.0/examples/README.md

As always — author intent, not coordinates.