QuestPDF 2024.3.0-beta1

.NET 6.0 This package targets .NET 6.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher. .NET Standard 2.0 This package targets .NET Standard 2.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher. .NET Framework 4.0 This package targets .NET Framework 4.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher.
This is a prerelease version of QuestPDF.
There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details. 
dotnet add package QuestPDF --version 2024.3.0-beta1                

                    
                

            
NuGet\Install-Package QuestPDF -Version 2024.3.0-beta1
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="QuestPDF" Version="2024.3.0-beta1" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
paket add QuestPDF --version 2024.3.0-beta1                

                    
                

            
#r "nuget: QuestPDF, 2024.3.0-beta1"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
// Install QuestPDF as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=QuestPDF&version=2024.3.0-beta1&prerelease

// Install QuestPDF as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=QuestPDF&version=2024.3.0-beta1&prerelease

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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 documents, reports, invoices, exports etc.

Usage animation of the PDF library

👨‍💻 Design PDF documents using C# and employ a code-only approach. Utilize your version control system to its fullest potential.

🧱 Compose PDF document with a range of powerful and predictable structural elements, such as text, image, border, table, and many more.

⚙️ Utilize a comprehensive layout engine, specifically designed for PDF document generation and paging support.

📖 Write code using concise and easy-to-understand C# Fluent API. Utilize IntelliSense to quickly discover available options.

🔗 Don't be limited to any proprietary scripting language or format. Follow your experience and leverage all modern C# features.

⌛ Save time thanks to a hot-reload capability, allowing real-time PDF document preview without code recompilation.

Simplicity is the key

How easy it is to start and prototype with QuestPDF? Really easy thanks to its minimal API! Please analyse the code below that generates basic PDF document:

using QuestPDF.Fluent;
using QuestPDF.Helpers;
using QuestPDF.Infrastructure;

// code in your main method
Document.Create(container =>
{
    container.Page(page =>
    {
        page.Size(PageSizes.A4);
        page.Margin(2, Unit.Centimetre);
        page.Background(Colors.White);
        page.DefaultTextStyle(x => x.FontSize(20));
        
        page.Header()
            .Text("Hello PDF!")
            .SemiBold().FontSize(36).FontColor(Colors.Blue.Medium);
        
        page.Content()
            .PaddingVertical(1, Unit.Centimetre)
            .Column(x =>
            {
                x.Spacing(20);
                
                x.Item().Text(Placeholders.LoremIpsum());
                x.Item().Image(Placeholders.Image(200, 100));
            });
        
        page.Footer()
            .AlignCenter()
            .Text(x =>
            {
                x.Span("Page ");
                x.CurrentPageNumber();
            });
    });
})
.GeneratePdf("hello.pdf");

Minimal PDF example

Let's get started

Begin exploring the QuestPDF library today. You are 250 lines of C# code away from creating a fully functional PDF invoice implementation.

Read the Getting Started tutorial to familiarize yourself with general library architecture, important layout structures as well as to better understand helpful patterns and practices.

Easily start designing your PDF documents, reports, invoices, exports and even more.

Getting started tutorial

Example invoice

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NuGet packages (43)

Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on QuestPDF:

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AgentHub.Service.Financial.Domain.Shared

Package Description
HTMLToQPDF

Relorer.QuestPDF.HTML is an extension for QuestPDF that allows to generate PDF from HTML
DH.QuestPDF

DH框架的Pdf处理库。基于https://github.com/QuestPDF/QuestPDF
Verify.QuestPDF

Extends Verify (https://github.com/VerifyTests/Verify) to allow verification via QuestPDF.
QuestPDF.Markdown

QuestPDF.Markdown is an open-source helper library that allows rendering markdown into a QuestPDF document

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Version 2024.3.0-alpha
The primary theme of this release is the removal of the SkiaSharp dependency and the introduction of custom native layer built on top of Skia M121.
This change was necessary to provide much higher flexibility and enable several new long-awaited features:
- Font subsetting - this feature includes only necessary font glyphs in the output document, reducing the file size. The size difference can be enormous when complex fonts are used of various styles,
- Improved text-related capabilities, including text justification, bi-directionality, enhanced line breaking algorithms, and more,
- Introduced additional document compression to reduce file size,
- Integrated native SVG support,
- Improved performance by 25% on average,
- In the future release: enhanced accessibility by support for PDF tags.

We would like to thank the SkiaSharp project, its maintainers and contributors, for creating a fantastic graphics library. It was a fantastic foundation for QuestPDF for over 3 years.

This release requires at least .NET Standard 2.1. The beta release will reintroduce support for the .NET Standard 2.0.



Version 2024.3.0-beta
- Updated the codebase to Skia m122 and resolved all backward-incompatible changes,
- Added support for the .NET Standard 2.0,
- Improved P/Invoke and marshaling compatibility with the legacy .NET Framework,
- Fixed a bug in the Text element that could cause an exception under certain conditions,
- Updated the Lato font to the latest version (2.015),
- Improved the loading method for native dependencies,
- Added the Text.ClampLines functionality,
- Added support for adjusting the thickness and style of text decorations (overline, strikeout, underline),
- Added support for word spacing,
- Reduced the risk of race conditions in Avalonia in the QuestPDF Previewer,
- Enhanced exception message when the QuestPDF Previewer fails to load due to missing required dotnet 8 runtime,
- Improved native memory management and fixed memory leaks,
- Include licenses of the third party dependencies in the NuGet package,
- Performed code cleanup and made minor adjustments.



Version 2024.3.0-beta1
- Greatly reduced the size of the native binaries by switching from ICU to libgrapheme,
- Improved the logic for finding and loading native dependencies,
- Fixed an issue where the font fallback does not work when the Settings.UseEnvironmentFonts setting is set to false,
- Added the ability to provide multiple font families or fallbacks,
- Fixed an issue where the text element does not render its content in certain scenarios when it contains page numbers,
- Fixed an issue where SkSvgCanvas may produce incomplete results, resulting in invalid SVG content,
- Improved memory management for SkParagraph in certain scenarios.