Swift Book PDF: The Swift Programming Language is back on Apple Books — plus PDF and EPUB archives

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Swift Book PDF: The Swift Programming Language is back on Apple Books — plus PDF and EPUB archives

I wrote Swift Book PDF, a Python package to convert the DocC source for The Swift Programming Language book into polished PDF and EPUB editions.

PDF editions follow the familiar DocC rendering style used on docs.swift.org. EPUB editions follow the design of the Swift Book editions previously published on Apple Books through Swift 5.7. Both include formatting improvements while staying true to the original styles.

The image shows The Swift Programming Language book displayed across three devices: a 14-inch MacBook Pro (M4) in Silver, an 11-inch iPad Pro (M4) in Space Gray, and an iPhone 17 Pro in Deep Blue. Each screen shows pages from the book titled Collection Types, featuring diagrams, code snippets, and explanations about arrays, sets, and dictionaries in Swift. Below the devices, centered text reads 'Swift Book PDF' followed by a large bold headline, 'Learn Swift anywhere.' The background is clean and light gray, emphasizing the devices and text.
The image shows The Swift Programming Language book displayed across three devices: a 14-inch MacBook Pro (M4) in Silver, an 11-inch iPad Pro (M4) in Space Gray, and an iPhone 17 Pro in Deep Blue. Each screen shows pages from the book titled Collection Types, featuring diagrams, code snippets, and explanations about arrays, sets, and dictionaries in Swift. Below the devices, centered text reads 'Swift Book PDF' followed by a large bold headline, 'Learn Swift anywhere.' The background is clean and light gray, emphasizing the devices and text.3840×1920 525 KB

Get the book

  • The Swift Programming Series is available on Apple Books, with optimized editions of The Swift Programming Language from Swift 5.8 onward.
  • Download PDF and EPUB editions across Swift releases from the Swift Book Archive.
  • Create your own customized edition of The Swift Programming Language with swift-book-pdf, with support for custom fonts, font sizes, and rendering styles.
Swift Book PDF offers 4 rendering styles
The image shows The Swift Programming Language open on a light gray background, with the heading “Digital,” the line “Made for comfortable reading on any screen,” and callouts for external and internal links.
The image shows The Swift Programming Language open on a light gray background, with the heading “Digital,” the line “Made for comfortable reading on any screen,” and callouts for external and internal links.1920×1866 457 KB
The image shows The Swift Programming Language as an open printed book on a light gray background, with the heading “Print,” the line “Beautifully composed for paper,” and callouts for full URLs and page-number references.
The image shows The Swift Programming Language as an open printed book on a light gray background, with the heading “Print,” the line “Beautifully composed for paper,” and callouts for full URLs and page-number references.1920×1866 448 KB
The image shows The Swift Programming Language open in a dark-themed digital layout, with the heading “Digital Dark,” the line “Built for focus, day or night,” and callouts for external links, internal links, dark mode code highlighting, and dark mode illustrations.
The image shows The Swift Programming Language open in a dark-themed digital layout, with the heading “Digital Dark,” the line “Built for focus, day or night,” and callouts for external links, internal links, dark mode code highlighting, and dark mode illustrations.1920×1866 471 KB
The image shows The Swift Programming Language as an open dark-themed print layout, with the heading “Print Dark,” the line “A striking dark take on the Print edition,” and callouts for full URLs, page-number references, dark mode code highlighting, and dark mode illustrations.
The image shows The Swift Programming Language as an open dark-themed print layout, with the heading “Print Dark,” the line “A striking dark take on the Print edition,” and callouts for full URLs, page-number references, dark mode code highlighting, and dark mode illustrations.1920×1866 477 KB

Both swift-book-pdf and swift-book-archive repositories are available on GitHub and licensed under Apache License v2.0. swift-book-pdf requires Python 3.10+, and LuaTeX for creating PDF versions.

This project is not published by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Apple Inc. or the Swift.org open source project. See the Acknowledgments chapter in each edition for more details.

Feedback, issues, and ideas for improving the CLI and generated editions are welcome!

Happy reading! :open_book:

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Is there a pdf / mobi / pub of the TSPL 5.8 available?
Is there a reason that documentation version of the language and official version don't match?
Swift programming language on Books app
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Thank you a lot.

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Thank you, man! I recently became interested in Swift programming, but I have never taken the big step, because I didn't know where to start. With your book I think I will finally be able to start my journey in Swift! Again, thank you very much for your contribution to the community, and happy coding :)

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Welcome to the community and have fun learning Swift! I was going to post this later this week once the book was added to the Swift Programming Series by the Apple Books team, but worth talking about it now:

If you'd like to use the same book and keep your notes across Swift releases, I will be updating this edition with every new Swift version:

It will be Book 1 in the Series so folks can easily grab it when they find the Series link. For a reference pinned to a particular Swift version, you can still get version-specific editions.

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