QuestPDF VS Microcharts

QuestPDF looks really good (I haven't used it) but I believe they changed their license recently.

I used that same library it worked great the only issue I had was the users would often have to manually set the scaling to fit to a page. I'm sure I could've fixed this in other ways if I was more competent with CSS but ended up just switching to use https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF in a backend instead of doing everything in front end.

Give this a try: QuestPDF

I think you should ask these questions in related discussion on Github: https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF/discussions/491

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Like many have suggested, I also cast my vote on QuestPDF. No more +50MB library including a Chrome browser to render HTML so a PDF of it can be created, which took 2-3 seconds each time. But with QuestPDF, it's so much faster!

Also, the library is open-source, so you can take a look at the exact implementation of the layout engine. It is inspired by Flutter and WPF, though optimized for pageable content: https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF/tree/main/Source/QuestPDF/Elements

Open source and cross platform: Microcharts

Microcharts is one of the most well-known open source charting libraries for Xamarin and many people, including me, would like to use it with .NET MAUI. Work on .NET MAUI support by Microcharts should arrive soon but while the PR is not merged, I want to show how to already use Microcharts with .NET MAUI.

Why not just save the chart as an image an then add it to the PDF?

I was excited about a new charting tool, but it seems it's in beta, and not much activity for several months. Lead posted about working on a v1 release in 2020. (https://github.com/microcharts-dotnet/Microcharts/issues/208)

Have you looked at https://github.com/microcharts-dotnet/Microcharts

That's correct. Personally, I haven't tested SVG rendering but I know that others have incorporated Skia-related libraries with great success, e.g. when integrating charts with the Microcharts library. At some point, I should add an article in the documentation about it 😁

Interested to hear who's using Microcharts and for those using it what have been your experiences? Do you feel this is as good as SyncFusion for charting, have you come across problems with using Microcharts, do you use it but you modified some charts, or maybe are you coding up your own charts with SkiaSharp?