Open Source HTML to PDF Renderer with Full CSS Support

c# html css pdf pdf-generation
Adam Haile picture Adam Haile · Jan 10, 2009 · Viewed 112.8k times · Source

I asked about getting iTextSharp to render a PDF from HTML and a CSS sheet before here but it seems like that may not be possible... So I guess I will have to try something else.

Is there an open source .NET/C# library out there that can take HTML and CSS as input and render it correctly?

I must reiterate... the library MUST be free and preferably something with a fairly liberal license. I'm working with basically no budget here.

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isaac picture isaac · Sep 30, 2010

This command line tool is the business! https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

It uses webkit rendering engine(used in safari and KDE), I tested it on some complex sites and it was by far better than any other tool.

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