SkiaSharp
SkiaSharp is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for .NET platforms based on Google's Skia Graphics Library. It provides a comprehensive 2D API that can be used across mobile, server and desktop models to render images. (by mono)
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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| SkiaSharp | QuestPDF | |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 70 | |
| 4,063 | 10,403 | |
| 2.5% | 4.0% | |
| 8.7 | 9.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
SkiaSharp
Posts with mentions or reviews of SkiaSharp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
It looks like the port was compiled with a binary SkiaSharp [0] since that requires Google tooling to build. Interesting to see the committer allowing this. Apparently it is not the first time.
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System.Drawing just dosen't work
The library that I've had the best luck with is SkiaSharp with .net 3.1. That said, I agree with others that I'd update the version of .net if possible.
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Open-source cross-platform C# library that encode .BMP files?
Found this issue that basically say it's not supported in skia directly, and it's right, from this page it seems only supported on iOS/Mac. This is pretty frustrating considering the documentation of SkiaSharp Encode() doesn't mention it.
- Easy-to-use 2D graphics libraries
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Creating 2d Interactive Building Map with Blazor.
Yes, I'm not aware of any way to use either the canvas api or webgl directly. This project has bindings for the canvas API, but it hasn't been updated in two years:https://github.com/BlazorExtensions/Canvas. SkiaSharp seems a nice option too: https://github.com/mono/SkiaSharp. It supports graphics across a whole load of platforms, including Blazor on the web.
- What library should I use to make basic 2D graphics which is simple to use and that is able to quickly draw a bunch of particles (circles) on the screen with updating positions every frame? (Not the best description ever. I explain it better in the post's text)
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Compress/resize images
If you want pure .NET, cross-platform, and future compatibility, SkiaSharp is the new way to do it.
- ImageSharp leaving the .NET Foundation due to licensing change
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Problem using Plugin.Firebase on IOS
This seems to be a clash with skiasharp. The other package I have which uses skiasharp is Mapsui Possibly related to this issue with SkiSharp mono/SkiaSharp#1879
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Blazor Hybrid looks amazing
This is interesting since SkiaSharp says:
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.
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How do you generate pdf files with charts?
QuestPDF looks really good (I haven't used it) but I believe they changed their license recently.
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How to generate PDFs in react?
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.
- Pdf export iz C# sa macOS
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Any alternate for Crystal Reports ?
Give this a try: QuestPDF
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QuestPDF will be dual licensed, no longer MIT only
I think you should ask these questions in related discussion on Github: https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF/discussions/491
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Quick question on using an HTML path for PDF creation
May I introduce you to QuestPDF!
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.NET Monthly Roundup - January 2023
➡️ James Newton-King ♔ on Twitter: "Coming in .NET 8: Route tooling for ASP.NET Core" / Twitter ➡️ Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 ➡️ Uno Platform 4.7 – New Project Template, Performance Improvements and more ➡️ C# Advent 2022 Awards | Cross Cutting Concerns ➡️ GitHub - QuestPDF ➡️ DNF Summit 2023 ➡️ .NET Frontend Day
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HTML to PDF free library? .NET 6.0
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!
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Convert html into PDF with IE11 from WPF
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
- QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SkiaSharp and QuestPDF you can also consider the following projects:
Microsoft.Maui.Graphics - An experimental cross-platform native graphics library.
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
PDF.Flow.Examples - Samples, articles, issue reporting and documentation related to Gehtsoft PDF.Flow library.
Microcharts - Create cross-platform (Xamarin, Windows, ...) simple charts.
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.
Maui - The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit is a community-created library that contains .NET MAUI Extensions, Advanced UI/UX Controls, and Behaviors to help make your life as a .NET MAUI developer easier
WeasyPrint-netcore - WeasyPrint Wrapper for .Net on Windows
iFakeLocation - Simulate locations on iOS devices on Windows, Mac and Ubuntu.
ScottPlot - Interactive plotting library for .NET
Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.
SkiaSharp vs Microsoft.Maui.Graphics
QuestPDF vs WeasyPrint
SkiaSharp vs MonoGame
QuestPDF vs PDF.Flow.Examples
SkiaSharp vs Microcharts
QuestPDF vs ClosedXML.Report
SkiaSharp vs Maui
QuestPDF vs WeasyPrint-netcore
SkiaSharp vs iFakeLocation
QuestPDF vs ScottPlot
SkiaSharp vs Uno Platform
QuestPDF vs Microcharts