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QuestPDF is an open-source .NET library for PDF documents generation.
It offers a layouting engine designed with a full paging support in mind. The document consists of many simple elements (e.g. border, background, image, text, padding, table, grid etc.) that are composed together to create more complex structures. This way, as a developer, you can understand the behavior of every element and use them with full confidence. Additionally, the document and all its elements support paging functionality. For example, an element can be moved to the next page (if there is not enough space) or even be split between pages like table's rows.
Unlike other libraries, it does not rely on the HTML-to-PDF conversion which in many cases is not reliable. Instead, it implements its own layouting engine that is optimized to cover all paging-related requirements.
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Installation
The library is available as a nuget package. You can install it as any other nuget package from your IDE, try to search by QuestPDF. You can find package details on this webpage.
// Package Manager
Install-Package QuestPDF
// .NET CLI
dotnet add package QuestPDF
// Package reference in .csproj file
<PackageReference Include="QuestPDF" Version="2022.3.1" />
Documentation
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:
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");
And compare it to the produced PDF file:
Are you ready for more?
The Fluent API of QuestPDF scales really well. It is easy to create and maintain even most complex documents. Read the Getting started tutorial to learn QuestPDF basics and implement an invoice under 200 lines of code. You can also investigate and play with the code from the example repository.
