Good UI Components BUT bad experience with PDF generator
January 06, 2022

Good UI Components BUT bad experience with PDF generator

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Progress Telerik UI

We have worked extensively with Telerik's React, Blazor, MVC, WebForms and PDF Document Processing controls for a variety of applications.

Pros

  • Great support
  • Good quality UI components
  • Great UI control performance

Cons

  • Poor PDF library: generated files were MASSIVE in size. We switched to Syncfusion because of this issue.
  • Poor user experience with their date picker components (too many clicks to choose a year in the past)
  • Documentation could be more complete
  • Telerik launches iOS components and then dropped them
  • Great support
  • Great performance for React and Blazor components
  • Diverse components with sufficient depth
  • Faster to develop apps
  • Better quality apps
I purchased Telerik because its components seemed great and were priced more attractively than Syncfusion. Unfortunately, after hitting major product limitations with Telerik's Document Processing for PDF I now find myself migrating from Telerik to Syncfusion. This has been an expensive lesson.

Do you think Progress Telerik delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Progress Telerik's feature set?

No

Did Progress Telerik live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Progress Telerik go as expected?

No

Would you buy Progress Telerik again?

No

If all you need are good-quality UI components, then Telerik is an excellent choice. Great performance. Excellent support. If you need to work with PDF files, be very careful: the Document Processing for PDF is very immature compared to offerings from other major vendors. Many limitations with digital signatures. Also: documents you generate will have MASSIVE file sizes that your users will complain about. Our organization is in the process of replacing Telerik with Syncfusion controls because they also have excellent UI components but have a stronger PDF offering (our generated PDFs with Syncfusion are between 10~50kB whereas with Telerik they are 500kB~7.5MB).

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