Guy Barrette, Microsoft, Regional Director, Montreal, Canada, Visual Studio, .NET Expertise
I’m looking for a way to create PDF files from an ASP.NET 3.5 app. Any recommendations?
Good results and performance with iTextSharp. Not so much experience with PDFSharp buts seems to work fine also.
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
You can use the itextsharp library.
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
Used pdflib on a large-scale project. It has everything you need in generating pdf..
www.syncfusion.com/.../pdf
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.
This would be very dependant on your requirements. I recon iText (itextsharp.sourceforge.net) would be a good library yo start out with
I've used iTextSharp which was pretty good:
sourceforge.net/.../itextsharp
Are you creating the PDF files from scratch or converting an existing document?
Did you try using iTEXTSharp? It has rich components to generate pdf on the fly.
pdfsharp.sf.net
itextsharp.sf.net
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).
I recommend the recession friendly itextsharp. Never had any issues. Using it to deliver over a thousand pdfs a day.
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.
You can use Microsoft Reports, built-in with Visual Studio (thus it's free).
I'm pretty sure the last one I used was from aspose; no issues, I would definitely use it again.
You could use the built in RDLC
weblogs.asp.net/.../How-to-render-client-report-definition-files-_28002E00_rdlc_2900_-directly-to-the-Response-stream-without-preview.aspx
Regards,
Raj
Well, I can NOT recommend ABCpdf... Memory problems amongst other things.
Decided to write in-house.
I recommend www.aspose.com