Quest PDF

# Release notes

# 2021.05

This release is the biggest one so far, offering a handful of new features and helpers:

  • Added new element: Box - it does not enforce parent size to its child,
  • Added new element: Grid - allows putting elements on the grid layout. Each element can take various number of columns. To big items will be moved to the next row,
  • Added new element: Canvas - allows drawing custom content using the SkiaSharp canvas element,
  • Added new element: EnsureSpace - makes sure that pageable content that according to the layout will take multiple pages, has enough space on each page,
  • Added new element: Layers - allows drawing content below and above the main layer, e.g. drawing text on top of the image,
  • Redesigned the Debug element - it does not only highlight space but also puts a small label,
  • Added set of predefined colors inspired by the Material Design system,
  • Added set of predefined fonts,
  • Improved the Row element - added spacing property similar to the one available in the Stack element,
  • Slightly adjusted available API (insignificant breaking changes).

# 2021.04

  • Added new element: Debug - this element can be used for inspecting its children and space taken by them,
  • Added new element: Element can be used for injecting dynamic elements (usually conditionally) without breaking the fluent API chain. This is practically syntactic sugar to simplify your code.
  • The AspectRatio element allows now to specify scaling rule: fitting width, height or available space.
  • The Image element supports now scaling rules: fitting width, height or available space, as well as scaling unproportionally.
  • Bugfix: the GeneratePdf(Stream stream) method does not close the output stream.
  • Bugfix: the AspectRatio element might now properly display pageable content.

# 2021.03

Added new element: ShowIf can be used for conditionally showing/hiding elements without using c# if-statement. This is practically a syntactic sugar to simplify your code.

Usability improvement: fluent API for changing text style does not mutate original style anymore, creates a copy instead with applied change.

Added possibility to render document as a set of images.

# 2021.02

Introduced new set of useful elements:

  • Internal links (redirecting user across the document, useful for creating table of contents),
  • External links (redirecting user outside the document, to the webpage),
  • Dynamic image (allows the developer to generate an image with very specific resolution).

Added support for font weights.

# 2021.01

It is never easy to spend hundreds of hours creating a library and then decide to make it free! But here is a time to share experience and knowledge, and be a part of the great open-source community, to help others create best experiences possible and innovate the world. The QuestPDF library is now published under MIT license 😃

# Bug fixes:

  • the Stack and the PageableStack elements do not apply spacing properly for children with zero height.
  • the Wrap element may not work properly when used inside PageableStack element.

# 2020.11

The first official release of the library. Containing all pieces required to successfully create and generate PDF documents.

# Roadmap

The QuestPDF library offers multiple tools needed to design and generate PDF documents. However, there is plenty of ideas under consideration.

# Next releases

Most of the features listed below should be added in the nearest months:

  • RichText element (applying multiple styles to text content, text justification, better word-wrapping algorithm, page-break support etc.),
  • Custom slots in components (named slots, dynamic slots),
  • Documentation cleanup.

# Under consideration

There are also features being actively investigated with lower importance:

  • Better debugging experience (e.g. when created layout generates an infinite document),
  • Tutorials: adding maps / charts to the document,
  • The library should return the generated document even if DocumentLayoutException is thrown (to better understand the issue),
  • Allow the Placeholder element to show text instead of an icon,
  • SVG support (integration with SkiaSharp.Svg (opens new window)),
  • Generation optimization: measuring text operation takes the vast majority of processing time,
  • Transformations: scale, rotate, offset, matrix,
  • Divider element (replacement for applying border in some scenarios),
  • and more...

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