convert a textFile to a pdf file.

[Guest]

Hi,

I am generating some text in a text file that I want to generate to a pdf
file but I am not sure how to do this in .net.

Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Brian

 

[Grant Merwitz]

You will need to buy a 3rd party API to do this.
Unless you want to write one yourself, but that'll take months

2 i've seen are:

ABCPdf
PDFAspose (or maybe AsposePDF)

 

[Guest]

So there isn't anything for free that I can accomplish this with.
I am trying to generate some reports in my .net project and they want the
reports in .pdf. I think that converting the Crystal Reports to PDF would
cause my client to buy the Crystal Reports Liscense but I am not sure.

Does anybody have any input on this.
Thanks

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

There are several open source options. Try iTextSharp at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/ I've used this one in the past
and liked it. It's a tad cumbersome at times, but it gets the job done and
the price is right.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[vishal.mehta]

Hello Brian,

I work for a company that has a product that can generate PDF documents
from text file. The company name is ceTe Software and the name
of the product is DynamicPDF Generator for .NET. Following is the
link to the download of fully functional evaluation version
http://www.cete.com/Products/GeneratorForNET/Download.csp. Look at
the TmeMachine example which shows how the to generate PDF documents
from text files. The examples are downloaded with the product download.


Let me know if you have any further questions.

Vishal

 

[William LaMartin]

I assume you are speaking of an ASP.Net project. For if you just want to do
this with a Windows desktop app and you create it within Visual Studio 2003,
then you can included Crystal Reports in the deployed project.

For the ASP.net project, if you want a free solution, you can go to the
site http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/, find your way to where you can
download the iTextSharp.dll, include it in your project and everything is
fine--that is if your web host will allow you to put dlls at the site--and
if you have enough endurance to create and format all of the PDF output
using the methods of the iTextSharp class.

I assume there are also solutions you can purchase.

 

[Mark Rae]

Vishal,

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Your product looks excellent, and one of the least cumbersome PDF APIs I've
ever seen!

Quesion: I'm a self-employed contractor and typically spend between three
and six months on a project for a client after which I move on to the next
one - such is the life of an IT contractor. If I were to purchase a
developer license for your product, presumably I could use it in any
software I develop for any client and deploy it on as many of those clients'
workstations and servers as required?

However, in almost all cases, my clients require me to leave them with the
full source code of everything I develop so that their internal development
teams can support and extend it etc. Would this affect my license at all, or
would it be down to them to purchase additional licenses for their
developers?

Thanks,

Mark

 

[vishal.mehta]

Hello Mark,

I am gald you liked our product. Yes purchasing the developer license
will allow you to use the license to develop any number of applications
and distribute it royalty free as well as deploy it on any number of
client servers, work stations without any problem.

Once you distribute the application to the client, and if they wish to
do enhancements or further develop the application then they would need
to puchase a seperate license and in that case will not affect your
licensing.

Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks
Vishal Mehta

 

[Mark Rae]

Let me know if you have any further questions.

If only I could afford to buy it...