RTF to PDF conversion in a webservice

[Armin Braunstein]

Hi!

I'm a software developer in the company named AtosOrigin and in our
current project we need a tool which can convert RTF-Files to
PDF-files in a .Net-webservice without the use of Word or other
WinForms or RichClient-Application on the server.
I have searched in google and some other sites but i haven't found a
tool which works without word and/or AcrobatWriter AND can be called
from a webservice.
Does anybody know such a tool?
Any help would be appriciated!

regards
Armin Braunstein
AtosOrigin IT

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

Have you looked at
http://www.wpcubed.com/products/rtf2pdf/index.htm
?
These are the other PDF libraries i know about:
In no particular order:

1. XMLPDF, by Visual Programming - http://www.xmlpdf.com/
Generate an XML file that conforms to their schema, then generate a PDF from
that XML file.
Commercial.

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2. a version of Crystal Reports included in Visual Studio .NET does PDF
export.
See
http://www.crystaldecisions.com/prod...comparison.asp

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3. PdfCreator for .NET -
Free.
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...8-603ef212d0db

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4. PdfCreator printer driver - (this is different from the above)
see
http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm

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5. itextsharp - http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/
Free, and GPL.
This depends on SharpZiplib -
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSourc.../Download.aspx

Of itextsharp, What I found... It works as advertised. I only
used the basic features. I did not do page layout or graphics,
just basic text, tables, lists. I did the "XML to PDF"
translation. (something like FOP).

http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tu...7.html#xml2pdf

You can see a few simple examples here, with source code, and a few notes I
had about usage:
http://www.winisp.net/cheeso/itext/

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6. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdflibrary/

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7. http://www.pdftron.com/net/index.html

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8. http://siberix.com/pdf/

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9. nFop - XSL FO for .NET (open source)
http://nfop.sourceforge.net/

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10. Report.net (open source and GPL)
entirely written in C#
http://report.sourceforge.net

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11. PDFControl by wpCubed GmbH - http://www.wptools.de
is able to convert metafiles into PDF file (high quality text +
vectors)
"Armin Braunstein" <ar**************@atosorigin.com> wrote in message
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Hi!

I'm a software developer in the company named AtosOrigin and in our
current project we need a tool which can convert RTF-Files to
PDF-files in a .Net-webservice without the use of Word or other
WinForms or RichClient-Application on the server.
I have searched in google and some other sites but i haven't found a
tool which works without word and/or AcrobatWriter AND can be called
from a webservice.
Does anybody know such a tool?
Any help would be appriciated!

regards
Armin Braunstein
AtosOrigin IT