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Tyler Williams
@coolsoftware.dev

Cool PDF v0.1.10 has 89% parity with react-native-pdf! Still heavily AI generated. I'll be doing some code auditing and documentation to get it production ready. But it should be in a state where you can evaluate if it'll work for you: github.com/coolsoftware...

github.comRelease v0.1.10 · coolsoftwaretyler/cool-pdfRelease v0.1.10 Version 0.1.10 has 89% props parity with react-native-pdf. If you're looking for a replacement, it should be in a state where you can experiment with it, although it's not quite pro...

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Tyler Williams
@coolsoftware.dev

I needed to either patch or fork react-native-pdf to get it to work with Expo 54, and I saw a lot of other people with the same need in the issue tracker, so I took my own fork and published it haha. Originally just needed it for a small thing, but decided I’d try full parity to help others.

Tyler Williams
@coolsoftware.dev

Ah it’s not really supposed to be different. But react-native-pdf hasn’t had a release in 6 months despite a bunch of new merges to main. I didn’t want to keep carrying patches for it. Also wanted to get some more practice writing Expo modules.

Tyler Williams
@coolsoftware.dev

I tried using the built in viewers on Android and it’s really limited. In the long term I’d like to improve things overall so I might investigate other options more thoroughly.