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Ref: https://app.clickup.com/t/86bbf0d90

Ports the pdfmake PDF toolkit (src/utils/pdf) to the 5.x line. Same surface as the 4.x PR: createDocument, resolveFont, imageDataUrl, downloadBlob, field, badge; pdfmake as an optional peer.

Why: react-pdf renders through react-reconciler. React 19 commits the reconciler container asynchronously, but react-pdf reads container.document.props synchronously right after updateContainer — so under React 19 it reads null and throws (Cannot read properties of null (reading 'props'), upstream diegomura/react-pdf#3223); under React 17/18 the commit was synchronous and never raced. Our stack spans React 17/18 (legacy widgets) and React 19 (the Next event site), so PDF generation broke on React 19. pdfmake has no reconciler, so it sidesteps this entirely.

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  • New Features
    • Added PDF generation tools for creating, downloading, opening, and printing documents, with support for custom fonts, images, fields, and badges.
    • Added an optional pdfmake peer dependency.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for PDF document creation, downloads, image handling, font resolution, and document elements.

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Adds a PDF utility package entry with helpers for font and image handling, PDF nodes, document operations, and browser downloads. It declares pdfmake as an optional peer dependency and adds tests for the new utilities.

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PDF utility toolkit

Layer / File(s) Summary
Prepare PDF inputs
src/utils/pdf/resolve-font.js, src/utils/pdf/__tests__/resolve-font.test.js, src/utils/pdf/image-data-url.js, src/utils/pdf/__tests__/image-data-url.test.js, src/utils/pdf/nodes.js, src/utils/pdf/__tests__/nodes.test.js
Font resolution supports Helvetica fallback, imported font containers, and URL-based font files. Image sources can be converted to cached data URLs. field and badge create PDF content nodes. Tests cover these behaviors.
Create and operate PDF documents
src/utils/pdf/create-document.js, src/utils/pdf/download-blob.js, src/utils/pdf/__fixtures__/fake-pdfmake.js, src/utils/pdf/__tests__/create-document.test.js, src/utils/pdf/__tests__/download-blob.test.js
createDocument builds a pdfmake document and exposes download, open, print, blob, and base64 operations. downloadBlob triggers a browser download and later removes its anchor and revokes the blob URL. Tests cover document operations, errors, and download behavior.
Expose PDF utilities
package.json, src/utils/pdf/index.js, webpack.common.js
Adds the utils/pdf webpack entry and re-exports the PDF helpers. Declares pdfmake as an optional peer dependency.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant createDocument
  participant resolveFont
  participant pdfMake
  participant downloadBlob
  participant Browser
  Caller->>createDocument: supply font, template, and data
  createDocument->>resolveFont: resolve font specification
  resolveFont->>pdfMake: register font container when applicable
  createDocument->>pdfMake: create PDF from document definition
  Caller->>createDocument: request download
  createDocument->>pdfMake: retrieve document blob
  createDocument->>downloadBlob: pass blob and filename
  downloadBlob->>Browser: click download anchor
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Malformed font configuration can prevent PDF generation, and a failed browser download can appear successful. These are bounded issues, but both should be fixed before relying on the new toolkit.

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LGTM

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@gcutrini please review conflicts

Add src/utils/pdf: a React-agnostic PDF toolkit built on pdfmake. Pure
templates (data, { font }) => docDefinition run through createDocument,
which resolves the font, builds the document, and returns download/open/
print/getBlob/getBase64. Ships no font or image: resolveFont and
imageDataUrl fetch + base64 a consumer-provided brand font/logo (pdfmake's
browser build can't load either by URL) and fall back to Helvetica.
field and badge are shared docDefinition node builders; downloadBlob
saves via a light-DOM anchor so it works from inside a shadow root.

pdfmake is an optional peer: the toolkit never imports it, the consumer
injects its own instance, so there is one VFS and one singleton owner.
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Review comments at @src/utils/pdf/download-blob.js:
- Around line 1-36: Update the catch block in downloadBlob to rethrow the caught
error after logging it, so failures from URL.createObjectURL,
document.body.appendChild, or a.click() propagate to createDocument().download()
and trigger its onError handling.

Review comments at @src/utils/pdf/resolve-font.js:
- Around line 59-62: Update resolveFont to verify that font.fonts contains
font.family before registering the pre-baked container or returning that family;
when it does not, return the existing Helvetica fallback, matching the URL
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  • package.json
  • src/utils/pdf/__fixtures__/fake-pdfmake.js
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  • src/utils/pdf/__tests__/image-data-url.test.js
  • src/utils/pdf/__tests__/nodes.test.js
  • src/utils/pdf/__tests__/resolve-font.test.js
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  • src/utils/pdf/download-blob.js
  • src/utils/pdf/image-data-url.js
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Comment thread src/utils/pdf/download-blob.js
Comment thread src/utils/pdf/resolve-font.js
downloadBlob only logged a failed download, so
createDocument().download() resolved and onError never ran.
downloadBlob rethrows the error after logging it.
resolveFont registered a pre-baked container even when its fonts did
not define the family, and pdfmake failed later while building the
file. Such a container falls back to Helvetica, like a font URL that
fails to load.
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@smarcet I pushed two small fixes for CodeRabbit's comments: 0f47091 (download errors reach onError) and 38a3a7a (a font container without its family falls back to Helvetica). Ready to merge with those. I'll open a separate PR with the same two fixes for v4.x.

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