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Release v0.1.0 - Core Engine & Rendering Foundation

We are thrilled to announce the first major milestone of md2pdf! Version 0.1.0 introduces our powerful, high-fidelity core rendering engine, establishing a robust foundation for beautiful Markdown-to-PDF generation.

Key Features

  • High-Fidelity Rendering Pipeline: Leverages Playwright to drive Chromium for pixel-perfect PDF pagination, executing standard print-friendly CSS.
  • Unified Ecosystem: Fully integrated with remark and rehype for reliable AST parsing and AST-to-HTML conversion.
  • Beautiful Typography & Layout: Integrated Google Fonts (Inter for standard text and JetBrains Mono for code blocks). We've also included sophisticated CSS for proper wrapping of code blocks across PDF boundaries!
  • Native Syntax Highlighting: Integrated shiki right into the parsing pipeline, rendering beautiful colored code blocks for 20+ languages out of the box (with graceful fallbacks for unknown languages).
  • GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM): Natively supports rendering tables, strikethrough, and properly aligned task lists (no more double-bullets!).
  • Safe Local Image Embedding: Smartly encodes and transforms local image paths (even those with spaces!) into absolute file:// URIs so they reliably show up in your PDFs.
  • Golden Document Testing Suite: Shipped with our robust visual regression suite layout (the "Golden Documents") so we can guarantee future updates never silently break your layouts.

CLI Enhancements

  • Properly structured CLI using commander.
  • Informative and robust error and warning surfaces (e.g. CLI now warns you if a code language isn't recognized but still proceeds with rendering).

What's Next?

Next up in the pipeline, we are setting our sights on v0.2.0 & v0.3.0, which will introduce native Mermaid.js diagram rendering and KaTeX mathematical equations, taking your technical PDFs to the next level.

Thank you for exploring md2pdf!
– Amit Divekar

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