Rotativa VS QuestPDF

Compare Rotativa vs QuestPDF and see what are their differences.

Rotativa

Rotativa, /rota'tiva/. Make Pdf from Asp.Net MVC. Available on Nuget https://www.nuget.org/packages/Rotativa (by webgio)

QuestPDF

QuestPDF is a modern open-source .NET library for PDF document generation. Offering comprehensive layout engine powered by concise and discoverable C# Fluent API. Easily generate PDF reports, invoices, exports, etc. (by QuestPDF)
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Rotativa QuestPDF
3 70
619 10,520
- 5.1%
0.0 9.1
11 months ago 4 days ago
HTML C#
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Rotativa

Posts with mentions or reviews of Rotativa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
  • Best library to convert excel file into pdf without watermark?
    1 project | /r/csharp | 17 Mar 2023
  • QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2023
    I've been using Rotativa[1] for URL to PDF generation which is also a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf. They have a dotnet-core[2] version and also a SaaS[3] but I think it's worth mentioning that Azure PaaS supports wkhtmltopdf natively[4] so I just self-host.

    Looking at QuestPDF's API docs, it doesn't look like they support URL / HTML to PDF generation. I think this would be a great addition especially given the age and issues with Rotativa and TuesPechkin on their GitHubs.

    [1] https://github.com/webgio/Rotativa

  • Programmatically Rendering PDFs from HTML using Chrome and Puppeteer
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Jan 2022
    I've used numerous technologies for doing that conversion, including WebSuperGoo's ABCpdf.net, and Rotativa's free library. (We even have an article on how to use it.) The latter is still in use on some of my projects, but it—and its newer .Net Core version—is based on wkhtmltopdf.exe, which is a problem. More about that later.

QuestPDF

Posts with mentions or reviews of QuestPDF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Rotativa and QuestPDF you can also consider the following projects:

WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome

PDF.Flow.Examples - Samples, articles, issue reporting and documentation related to Gehtsoft PDF.Flow library.

TuesPechkin - A .NET wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf library with an object-oriented API.

ClosedXML.Report - ClosedXML.Report is a tool for report generation with which you can easily export any data from your .NET classes to Excel using a XLSX-template.

pdfjet - PDF library for Java, C#, Swift and Go developers

WeasyPrint-netcore - WeasyPrint Wrapper for .Net on Windows

gofpdi - Go Free PDF Document Importer

Microcharts - Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.

csswg-drafts - CSS Working Group Editor Drafts

ScottPlot - Interactive plotting library for .NET