Ever ran into a requirement where you had to generate a PDF file as an output from your .NET application (windows or web application) ? Well, it's not that tough to accomplish this and let me emphasize that "it's easy" :-)I got a chance to work on a requirement like this where in I had to generate a big pdf file with lot of numbers presented in tables, colored text and a bunch of images - to be laid out neatly in the pdf.
I came across an open-source project (am a big fan of open source projects and I try my best to distribute my code too - SmartTimePicker) named - PDFSharp.
You can download the documentation and samples from this site, but for the benefit of all my readers, let me list down the highlights (as given on that site):
- Creates PDF documents on the fly from any .Net language
- Easy to understand object model to compose documents
- One source code for drawing on a PDF page as well as in a window or on the printer
- Modify, merge, and split existing PDF files
- Images with transparency (color mask, monochrome mask, alpha mask)
- Newly designed from scratch and written entirely in C#
- The graphical classes go well with .Net
With PDFsharp, start producing pdfs that look professional, even without having to buy Acrobat writer ;-)
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