Stephan Dekker

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. (Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955)

PDF library for .NET

Wanna create a pdf and write stuff to it? Create a watermark, change papersize, etc, etc? Finally i found a good solution to do it from code. Too bad the JAVA guys beat us to it, but luckely JAVA can be ported to .NET right? I have not tested it fully, but the POC worked great!

Just one DLL, create a reference and a using directive to iTextSharp.Text and off you go !!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp

And the best part is, as we are dutch afterall, ITS FREE!!!

Cheers!

 

 

Published Wed, Aug 30 2006 9:31 PM by Stephan Dekker
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# re: PDF library for .NET@ Wednesday, August 30, 2006 10:57 PM

It seems to work great. I tried some of the samples and they all work. But I can see a use for it when you want to dump large amounts of text information (and or images) in a predefined order in a PDF file, which is what those samples do. If, for example, you want to create a report, you don't have a designer option (yet). Which brings building reports back to the days of the dot matrix line printer. So for this I will still use something like Crystal Reports or Reporting services.

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