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.