wkhtmltopdf-windows VS PdfSharpCore

wkhtmltopdf[1] uses the QT WebKit renderer. I used it as part of my job hut work-flow with pandoc to get pdf resumes from markdown. It got me a job, so there's that.

[1] https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

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In 2014 we used wkhtmltopdf[0] to generate PDF copies of Cloudfoundry docs for every version every release, and maybe that's what I'd reach for now. Not sure if Qt WebKit has similar limits as Chromium.

Not that you asked, but I am sitting here silently judging whoever let those pages get that large. Enough html to cap out RAM? Chesterton's Fence dictates that I presume your upstream's hands were tied, but wowee!

0. https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

In most cases no, AsciiDoctor-PDF converter uses the Ruby library PDF library Prawn to generate PDFs, However, there are alternative PDF converters which do convert from HTML (the VSC AsciiDoctor plug-in allows the option to use a different converter), but I don't think they use chrome. Please note that using different pdf converters is a bit of an advanced topic. https://wkhtmltopdf.org/, and asciidoctor-web-pdf.

There are multiple options for how to convert HTML to PDF, one could be by using open-source projects like Puppeteer or wkhtmltopdf. I wrote a separate post How to convert HTML to PDF using Puppeteer, but now for simplicity, I going to use html2pdf.app. Its free plan gives 100 credits per month, excellent!

There are other tools for HTML conversion, such as wkhtmltopdf, but in my experience I've found Chrome to be the easiest to work with.

I remember I used Razor to build HTML that I could then throw into wkhtmltopdf. There is a c# wrapper somewhere on github.

You need to download the Wkhtmltopdf

I read your post 2 days ago and while browsing for some unrelated things I came across https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

PdfSharpCore https://github.com/ststeiger/PdfSharpCore, a .NET Core port of PdfSharp, might come to the rescue as it has largely removed GDI+.

a) create PDF with https://github.com/ststeiger/PdfSharpCore and then display by using https://www.nuget.org/packages/PdfiumViewer.Updated/ - tested and works in .net 6 desktop app

PdfSharpCore has a compression feature and it's MIT licenced. https://github.com/ststeiger/PdfSharpCore

In one of my pet projects I use PdfSharpCore https://github.com/ststeiger/PdfSharpCore + HtmlRendererCore.PdfSharpCore https://www.nuget.org/packages/HtmlRendererCore.PdfSharpCore. The way it works is something like this:

GitHub - ststeiger/PdfSharpCore: Port of the PdfSharp library to .NET Core - largely removed GDI+ (only missing GetFontData - which can be replaced with freetype2)