GrapeCity Documents for PDF (aka GcPdf) is a collection of class libraries targeting .NET Standard 2.0, written in C#, and providing APIs that allow you to create PDF files from scratch and to load, analyze and modify existing documents.
GcPdf runs on all platforms supported by .NET Standard, including .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, .NET Framework and so on, and on all operating systems (Windows, macOS and Linux).
GcPdf and supporting packages are available on NuGet.org.
To use GcPdf in an application, you need to reference (install) just the GrapeCity.Documents.Pdf package. It will pull in the required infrastructure packages.
To render HTML content, install the GrapeCity.Documents.Html (aka GcHtml) package. It allows to save whole HTML pages as PDFs, or include HTML fragments into PDFs along with other content.
To render barcodes, install the GrapeCity.Documents.Barcode (aka GcBarcode) package. It provides extension methods that allow to add barcodes to PDFs.
On a Windows system, you can optionally install GrapeCity.Documents.Common.Windows. It provides support for font linking specified in the Windows registry, and access to native Windows imaging APIs, improving performance and adding some features (e.g. TIFF support).
This repository contains example projects that demonstrate basic and advanced features of GcPdf. The samples' code includes extensive comments that will help you learn GcPdf and quickly get up to speed using it.
To use GcPdf in a production environment, you need a valid license, please see GrapeCity Licensing for details.
When used without a license, GcPdf has the following limitations:
- A header saying that an unlicensed version was used is added at the top of all pages in the generated PDFs.
- When loading PDFs, only up to 5 first pages are loaded.