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by mikece 1400 days ago
Looks neat! I'll have to dig in more later to learn about the process of writing text to a PDF document; the only PDF generation library I've used for .NET was one that took HTML as input and created a PDF from that. Being a web developer that was easy enough to reason about. Hopefully this one is easy to use as well as a side project for automating messaging and invoicing for my HOA lacks code-based generation of PDFs at this point (generating a web page and saving as PDF is sufficient for now: is more steps but I'm not getting paid for this and it's typically a once-a-year thing.)
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Generating PDF from HTML works in many simple cases. Once you want to have finer control over the content, document structure becomes more and more complex, and you want to achieve higher performance - having a proper tool is really important. It all depends on the scale of your solution, how often you perform changes, and how fast should be the development loop before it is too painful.

I got a lot of positive feedback from QuestPDF users, and I hope that it will become useful for more developers in the .NET ecosystem :)