Release notes, framework tutorials, and how-to posts on HTML to PDF conversion with the SelectPdf .NET Library and Online API.
Choosing a PDF library for .NET usually means reading vendor pages, running a hello world and hoping the result holds up on real documents. We wanted something more useful: ten C# PDF libraries put through the same 14 tasks, each with a compilable sample, and measured on the same machine under Windows and Linux for […]
SelectPdf 26.5 is out. The cross-platform SelectPdf.Universal library can now hand its conversions to an engine running in a container on another machine, which brings it to Alpine Linux and to clusters. It builds tables of contents with page numbers, turns HTML forms into fillable PDF forms, and signs with keys held on USB tokens, […]
For twelve years the answer to “can I run the SelectPdf library on Linux?” was no — use the Online API instead. That answer changes today. SelectPdf 26.4 introduces SelectPdf.Universal, our new flagship .NET PDF library. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS on Apple Silicon, in Docker, on x64 and ARM64, and it is […]
This is a complete, hands-on guide to converting HTML to PDF in C# with the SelectPdf library for .NET. It works up from a three-line conversion to a production-ready workflow: every one of the 19 code steps is a full, compiling example taken straight from this project and rendered with the Chromium engine, so the […]
Updated October 2026 for SelectPdf 26.4: the library now runs on Linux, in Docker and on macOS on Apple Silicon as well, through the new SelectPdf.Universal packages. The Linux sections below are rewritten accordingly. If your .NET app still calls DinkToPdf, NReco.PdfGenerator, Rotativa, or WkHtmlToXSharp in production, you’re shipping a wrapper around a binary that […]
We are pleased to introduce SelectPdf AI Tools — a free, open-source collection of Agent Skills that teach AI coding assistants how to use SelectPdf correctly. It is available today on GitHub at github.com/selectpdf/ai-tools. AI coding assistants are genuinely useful, right up until they invent a method that does not exist, pass an argument in […]
We are pleased to announce the release of SelectPdf v26.3. This is a major step forward for the SelectPdf HTML to PDF library, headlined by brand-new accessible PDF generation — tagged PDF (PDF/UA-1) and PDF/A-3 (levels b, u, and a) — available from both the HTML-to-PDF converter and the programmatic document API. In addition, both […]
Starting today (May 27, 2026), every new SelectPdf API key is created with Chromium set as its default rendering engine. Existing keys are not affected — they keep behaving exactly the way they do today. This post explains what changes, why we picked Chromium, and how to choose a different engine on any call.
We’ve just rolled out a wave of improvements to the SelectPdf HTML to PDF Online REST API — a faster modern rendering engine, a no-signup demo endpoint, smarter response metadata, and refreshed client libraries on every supported language. Here is the short tour.
A practical guide for developers and businesses that need affordable HTML to PDF conversion. Converting HTML to PDF is a common requirement for modern websites and business applications. Invoices, reports, contracts, receipts, certificates, dashboards, and email templates often need to be saved or delivered as PDF files. The challenge is that many PDF generation tools […]
