How to generate a PDF file with C# ?

[Dehaibe François]

Hi,

I'm making a program which uses a scanner which is enable
to can multiple pages.
I want to save all the scanned images into a PDF FILE.

Does exist an API which can generate PDF FILE in .NET ?

Best Regards,

François

[Abhishek Srivastava]

Check out

http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/

regards,
Abhishek.
Dehaibe François wrote:

Hi,

I'm making a program which uses a scanner which is enable
to can multiple pages.
I want to save all the scanned images into a PDF FILE.

Does exist an API which can generate PDF FILE in .NET ?

Best Regards,

François

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Dehaibe François <f.*******@skynet.be> wrote:

I'm making a program which uses a scanner which is enable
to can multiple pages.
I want to save all the scanned images into a PDF FILE.

Does exist an API which can generate PDF FILE in .NET ?

Not that I've used any of them, but:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdflibrary/
http://www.pdftron.com/net/index.html
http://siberix.com/pdf/

might help you.

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[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

There are a bunch of options, some commercial and some free.

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.
This one is 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
Apparently you just print to a PDF printer driver. You need to specify an
output filename.

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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://dinoch.dyndns.org:8080/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
http://nfop.sourceforge.net/

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Dehaibe François <f.*******@skynet.be> wrote:

I'm making a program which uses a scanner which is enable
to can multiple pages.
I want to save all the scanned images into a PDF FILE.

Does exist an API which can generate PDF FILE in .NET ?

Not that I've used any of them, but:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdflibrary/
http://www.pdftron.com/net/index.html
http://siberix.com/pdf/

might help you.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[Julian Ziersch]

annother product:

PDFControl by wpCubed GmbH - http://www.wptools.de
is able to convert metafiles into PDF file (high quality text +
vectors)

Julian