GraphCompose v1.5.0

[DemchaAV]

GraphCompose v1.5.0 — "the intuitive release" — is live.

GraphCompose is a declarative document layout engine for Java built on top of PDFBox.

Instead of manually fighting PDF coordinates, margins, page breaks, and layout edge cases, you describe the document structure:

• sections
• modules
• paragraphs
• tables
• rows
• layers
• themes
• shape containers

GraphCompose handles layout, pagination, rendering, and reusable document templates.

What v1.5.0 adds:

• shape-as-container with clip path — circles, ellipses, and rounded cards as layout containers that clip their children
• transforms (rotate / scale) and per-layer z-index on every shape-shaped builder
• advanced tables — row span, zebra rows, totals row, repeating header on page break
• two cinematic templates — InvoiceTemplateV2 and ProposalTemplateV2 — both BusinessTheme-driven
• CvTheme.fromBusinessTheme(...) bridges CV-specific layout tokens onto the business theme so the seven CV templates inherit the same palette
• a 22-example gallery with PDF previews committed to the repo so every render is browsable on GitHub without running anything
• 672 green tests including cinematic-feature tests, clip-path invariants, transform CTM checks, table row-span / zebra / repeating-header tests, and a visual regression harness

v1.5.0 is fully source-compatible with v1.4. Every public record that gained a new field ships back-compat constructors, so v1.4 callers compile and behave unchanged.

The main idea is still the same:

author intent, not coordinates.

Repository:
https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose

Examples gallery:
https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose/tree/main/examples

Release notes:
https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose/releases/tag/v1.5.0

Migration from v1.4:
https://github.com/DemchaAV/GraphCompose/blob/main/docs/migration-v1-4-to-v1-5.md

Feedback, issues, ideas, and contributions are very welcome. v1.6 is in planning — nested lists, composed table cells, a CanvasLayer for free-form drawing, and a Maven Central pass are on the table.