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Guy Barrette

Microsoft Regional Director, Montreal, Canada

Server side PDF creation – Recommendations?

I’m looking for a way to create PDF files from an ASP.NET 3.5 app.  Any recommendations?

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Posted: Jul 08 2009, 06:52 AM by guybarrette | with 20 comment(s)
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Sébastien Ros said:

Good results and performance with iTextSharp. Not so much experience with PDFSharp buts seems to work fine also.

# July 8, 2009 7:12 AM

Steve Hurcombe said:

Hi, www.aspose.com have some excellent, high quality tools. Depends a lot on what you are trying to do (and your budget), but they are well worth a look.

I have no direct connection with them, other than being a satisfied customer.

Best regards

Steve

# July 8, 2009 7:38 AM

bgeerdink said:

You can use the itextsharp library.

# July 8, 2009 7:46 AM

Marshall Brooke said:

I use PDF4Net from http://www.o2sol.com/ and I can highly recommend the product.  It caters for pretty much all your programmatic PDF requirements.

best

Marshall

# July 8, 2009 7:54 AM

JM said:

Used pdflib on a large-scale project. It has everything you need in generating pdf..

# July 8, 2009 8:01 AM

Dimitri Adams said:

# July 8, 2009 8:19 AM

verbalk said:

ItextSharp if open source is your thing. The HTML parser is a bit hard to work with though.

ABCPDF is also popular - and my team says it handles HTML pretty well.

# July 8, 2009 8:26 AM

flalar said:

This would be very dependant on your requirements. I recon iText (itextsharp.sourceforge.net) would be a good library yo start out with

# July 8, 2009 8:32 AM

ca8msm said:

I've used iTextSharp which was pretty good:

sourceforge.net/.../itextsharp

Are you creating the PDF files from scratch or converting an existing document?

# July 8, 2009 8:37 AM

Mohan said:

Did you try using iTEXTSharp? It has rich components to generate pdf on the fly.

# July 8, 2009 8:43 AM

emiliano said:

pdfsharp.sf.net

itextsharp.sf.net

# July 8, 2009 9:11 AM

Alexander said:

I am using iTextSharp, It's very good library in my opinion. I also used syncfusion, but it costs money. So for my current project I am using iTextSharp.

By the way, have a look in Microsoft reporting, it has ability to pdf, excel creation (for example reports).

# July 8, 2009 11:52 AM

Dave said:

I recommend the recession friendly itextsharp. Never had any issues. Using it to deliver over a thousand pdfs a day.

# July 8, 2009 12:39 PM

Bharani said:

I have used iTextSharp in the past. It is good.

Have a look at .NET ReportServer control. This works similar to MS SQL Reporting Services. You can create pdf, excel files. Using this means no third party dependency.

Just my 2 cents.

# July 8, 2009 2:56 PM

selden said:

You can use Microsoft Reports, built-in with Visual Studio (thus it's free).

# July 8, 2009 3:05 PM

AndrewSeven said:

I'm pretty sure the last one I used was from aspose; no issues, I would definitely use it again.

# July 8, 2009 3:36 PM

Damon Stephenson said:

Well, I can NOT recommend ABCpdf... Memory problems amongst other things.

Decided to write in-house.

# July 9, 2009 10:48 AM

SonuKapoor said:

I recommend www.aspose.com

# July 10, 2009 10:12 AM

Pebble94464 said:

In terms of performance and features, ABCpdf... It's also a mature product of commercial quality.  I've been using it for a number of years and haven't encountered the memory problems Damon mentioned, none that were not my own fault that is. On the few occasions I have needed to contact developer support, webSupergoo have always been very responsive. And the standard edition can be obtained for free ;-)

# May 14, 2010 1:21 AM
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