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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...

Sorry, but I don't understand the reasoning, as it still uses pdfiumandroid for the rendering, so what's the difference?

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.

Ah ok, good reasons I can see! I was asking because I was a bit annoyed about pdfium bundle size, but I guess there's no alternatives to that right