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Can the Bold Reports be used with ASP.NET Core on Linux and macOS

Yes, you can make use of our Bold Reports Embedded Reporting tools with Linux and macOS. You have to ensure the following while using our component.

Bold Reports uses the System.Drawing to measure text size for CanGrow feature supports available Textbox ReportItem and it requires native libgdiplus library. So, you should install the libgdiplus dependent library, which is not available with non-Windows operating systems.

Linux

Install the libgdiplus by executing the following commands at a terminal (command) prompt:

sudo apt install libc6-dev
sudo apt install libgdiplus

For .NET 6.0 or above version on Linux

You need to set the System.Drawing.EnableUnixSupport as true in the ConfigProperties section of the runtimeconfig.json file, as shown in the following code sample.

{
  "runtimeOptions": {
    "tfm": "net6.0",
    "frameworks": [
    ],
    "configProperties": {
      ......
      ......
      "System.Drawing.EnableUnixSupport": true

    }
  }
}

macOS

Use the Homebrew (“brew”) package manager for installing libgdiplus. After installing brew, install the libgdiplus by executing the following commands at a terminal (command) prompt:

brew update
brew install mono-libgdiplus