PDF Generation Component?

[Chris Ashley]

Can anybody recommend a PDF generation component? There seem to be
quite a few out there at the same price point so it's difficult to get
an idea of which is the best without trialing them all.

Regards,

Chris

 

[Joseph Ferris]

Chris,

Are you looking for something to generate PDF documents directly or are
you converting from another format?

Personally, I started with a couple of components that directly built
PDF documents, such as PDFlib and iTextSharp. They were good packages,
as a whole, but I wanted to automate the creation of the PDF documents
for my purposes, so I switched over to generating XSL-FO documents and
generating the PDF documents from that.

If that is an approach that you are considering, I would recommend the
Ibex PDF Creator (http://www.xmlpdf.com/ibex.html). It is, in my
opinion, the best FO processor out there.

HTH,

Joseph