QuestPDF 2021.11 - a new version of the open-source, MIT-licensed, C# library for generating PDF documents with fluent API, now with several community-driven improvements 🎉 Please help me make it popular 🚀

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/csharp

Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • 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.

  • This concept has proven to be quite successful in many projects already. If you like it and want to support the project development, please give it a star ⭐ in the GitHub repository and upvote ⬆️ this post.

  • library

    Discontinued QuestPDF is an open-source, modern and battle-tested library that can help you with generating PDF documents by offering friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API. (by questpdf)

  • There are already a couple of free or paid libraries in the .NET ecosystem that can be used to generate PDF files. The way how QuestPDF differs is simple: instead of relying on an HTML-to-PDF conversion, it implements its own layouting engine that renders the full content using the SkiaSharp library (a Skia port for .NET, used in Chrome, Android, MAUI, etc.).

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

    WorkOS logo
  • example-invoice

    Discontinued [Moved to: https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF-ExampleInvoice]

  • Try out the sample project to see how easy it is to create an invoice 📊,

  • Microcharts

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

  • 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 😁

  • ScottPlot

    Interactive plotting library for .NET

  • I was mostly wondering about the charting library itself, in isolation of QuestPDF. ScottPlot is the other one I was considering besides microcharts. Since you mentioned using QuestPDF in production for reporting, I was wondering if perhaps you also used any of the OSS charting libraries in building those reports and if you have any insights you can share. Docs and demos are a good start when picking one, but lived experience is very valuable.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

    InfluxDB logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts