.net pdf library

[Björn]

Hi

I´m searching for a dotnet library for creating pdf files on the fly.
While searching at google I found a lot of libraries, but most libraries are
handling Text as a kind of Image and I have to position it on the page. What
I´m looking for is a library where I can say :

PDFDocument.Add("Text");
PDFDocument.Add("Image");
PDFDocument.Add("Header");
PDFDocument.Add("Footer");
PDFDocument.Add("Table");

and positioning is made by the library

The only library I have found is iTextsharp at Sourceforge.
This Library can all these things, but I´m afraid using this Library because
it´s opensource and when I´m getting in trubble while generating PDF´s on
the fly I have to find the bug on my own. And I haven´t the time to search
for bugs, so I need a library which is well supported.

Any ideas for such a library?

regards

Björn

 

[Scott]

I use itext; it works pretty well.

I also use xmlpdf http://www.xmlpdf.com/ which was ideal for what I wanted.

There a a bunch of others; do a google.

Scott
Hi

I´m searching for a dotnet library for creating pdf files on the fly.
While searching at google I found a lot of libraries, but most libraries are
handling Text as a kind of Image and I have to position it on the page. What
I´m looking for is a library where I can say :

PDFDocument.Add("Text");
PDFDocument.Add("Image");
PDFDocument.Add("Header");
PDFDocument.Add("Footer");
PDFDocument.Add("Table");

and positioning is made by the library

The only library I have found is iTextsharp at Sourceforge.
This Library can all these things, but I´m afraid using this Library because
it´s opensource and when I´m getting in trubble while generating PDF´s on
the fly I have to find the bug on my own. And I haven´t the time to search
for bugs, so I need a library which is well supported.

Any ideas for such a library?

regards

Björn

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

I also use iTextSharp primarily on my projects. It's very stable, has good
documentation available (not to mention the source code too), and the usual
problems you may have area already in the forums for it and easily
locatable.

I've also toyed with TallPDF before (from www.tallcomponents.com) and found
it to be a nice, robust package.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage