Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#
19 days ago
- #OpenSource
- #.NET
- The author explores PDF rendering solutions for .NET, focusing on permissively licensed libraries.
- Key challenges include layouting, styling, and translating formats to PDF, leading to a refined search for libraries that handle DOM representation and PDF writing.
- QuestPDF is highlighted as a modern, well-maintained open-source project with a unique licensing model (MIT for free version, commercial for others).
- A comprehensive list of PDF-related libraries is provided, categorized by type, license, and usefulness, including MigraDoc, PdfPig, and LiteHtmlSharp.
- MigraDoc, combined with PDFSharp, emerges as the best fit for the author's criteria, despite some limitations in styling and memory usage for large documents.
- The post concludes with reflections on the lack of strong open-source contenders for PDF rendering and the author's interest in developing a solution.