Pdf rendering library c#

And it seems to work well. In just a few lines we are up and running. While documentation is pretty good, I found it sort of all over the place. So on that level, ease of use seems good.

I would say that many code examples were done using old school. NET WebForms which made me uneasy. Last up, IronPDF. For starters they have all these tiers. Like you can get a single project license, but you have to pay per developer ugh. Yes and yes.

In IronPDF it just works. What impressed me the most about IronPDF was their documentation. They even went as far to show you examples of how you might use Handlebars as a templating engine, implementing page breaks in your HTML, and even watermarking.

Again, IronPDF comes up trumps when it comes to ease of use. In literally 4 lines everything just works and the output PDF is exactly as it should be :. NET wrappers to make use of it. Even if you do want to go through that pain, features are rather limited. Ridiculous pricing. Might be OK for people who hate money but I skipped this one. Another one for haters of money. Support for. NET Core also seemed extremely sketchy.

With the documentation half saying they support. You guessed it, another one with ridiculous pricing. Seems to work on AGPL license for free applications but rather not get into that.

So after all of that. Where does it leave us? And again in my opinion, it seemed to have the most fully featured API along with the most up to date documentation. If you have another PDF option in. NET Core, feel free to drop a comment below! Core Also there are some. You forgot the most important thing when addressing a PDF library for. Net Core, it should be compatible to work cross platform on Windows and Linux as well. Great comment Liran! Thanks for that.

Very useful comment, thank you. I too have been plugging away at finding a cross platform html2pdf library. The other option is that you deploy a web service with your application that can execute JavaScript. We ran through the same comparison, and ended up with the same frustration we are software vendor with both SAAS and on-prem customers. We ended up with JSReports.

Works pretty neat. NET version which has some restrictions in terms of the number of pages, etc. Plus they offer a community license. They have. NET and. NET Core versions. It has Nuget packages available. While they have a deployment license which is single server, single application, they have a company license available. The company license is unlimited devs, unlimited apps, unlimited deployments. NET application. You can download the binaries of the library or use its NuGet package.

To try Docotic. Pdf without evaluation mode restrictions, you may get the free time-limited license key by using the form here. Graphics surface. Then you can use. In Windows Forms applications, you can use classes from System. Printing namespace. Please note that it is not recommended to use anything from the System. Drawing namespace in macOS and Linux environments. The macOS and Linux implementations of the System.

Drawing are incomplete and different from the Windows implementation. WPF provides another PrintDialog class but does not provide classes for print preview. Thus, it's easier to use print classes from System. Forms and System. Printing namespaces in WPF applications. Look at the Print PDF in. The application shows how to:. The application uses Docotic. Pdf library, BitMiracle. Gdi extension DLL , and print classes from System. Printing namespaces.

The PdfPrintDocument class describes the main printing logic. This class connects Docotic. Pdf with the System. PrintDocument class.

First, we set up transformations of the printed page's Graphics object. It's important to respect the "Fit page" and "Actual size" settings. And we also display the printer's hard margins in the Print Preview dialog. Draw extension method. For example, you can show the print dialog for your PDF document like that:. See the section History and GPL licensing for more information. Poppler's source code is maintained as a Git repository in gitlab.

You can fork that repository and submit merge requests. If you want to report a rendering or parsing bug, or a missing PDF feature, please provide an example PDF file as an attachment to your bug report. It really helps if you can minimize the PDF to only the items required to reproduce the bug or the missing feature, but it is not absolutely required. Please be careful of publishing PDF files that you don't want other people to see, or files whose copyright does not allow redistribution; the bug tracker is a public resource and attachments are visible to everyone.

Poppler is highly sensitive to security bugs, since it deals mainly with untrusted files downloaded from the Internet. The following directories in Poppler's source tree have the stable APIs :. The purpose of forking xpdf is twofold. First, we want to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared library, to centralize the maintenance effort. Today a number of applications incorporate the xpdf code base, and whenever a security issue is discovered, all these applications exchange patches and put out new releases.

In turn, all distributions must package and release new version of these xpdf based viewers. It's safe to say that there's a lot of duplicated effort with the current situation. Even if poppler in the short term introduces yet another xpdf derived code base to the world, we hope that over time these applications will adopt poppler.

After all, we only need one application to use poppler to break even.