So I've embedded a PDF in one of my windows forms. It works great, but is there a way for me to populate the pdf with values from another form?
For example, I'd wanna take a comboBox.Text value and place that in one of the PDF's Textboxes.
I was just wondering if there was any solution for me to do this programmatically with C#.
Thanks for any feedback.
How exactly are you integrate the PDF into your form?
which library you are use?
I'm asking because it depends how to achieve you goals.
For example, yo can use aspose pdf for .net, patagames pdfium.net sdk, debenu quick pdf library or something else. iText sharp pdf or ghost library
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I want to ask for the best way to generate a PDF and Microsoft Word Documents using ASP.NET.
I have used XSLT transformation, but the results was not good, and the major of XSLT processors are commercial and not free.
I need to create a simple document have a header, footer and some tables and images.
can anyone provide me with the best technology to do this job.
Thanks
I had this question a little while ago.
I wrote some really neat stuff for PDF generation.
iTextSharp or XSL-FO to create a PDF dynamically with fillable forms?
PM me and I can send you some files.
IText is a good free library for creating PDF documents.http://itextpdf.com. Works great with both WinForms and ASP.Net.
Hi All,
I am creating a PDF document using ITEXTSHARP. I need to add some content to PDF toolbar while creating the PDF document. How can i achieve this using C#. Please see the attached image for reference.
Thanks in advance.
iTextSharp is used to generate PDF files, not modifying the PDF viewer. If you need to modify toolbars and stuff like this in Adobe Reader this definitely is not something that you could achieve with iTextSharp.
eh...
Ok so how to do it.
Make template in Word.
eg of Word
Name <FirstName>
Surname <LastName>
Job <JobType>
Salary <Salary>
When generating:
Open word and replace and other marks
Then makepdf (pdfcreator for example)
Edit:
Okay Ill show u schema, no ready code cuz little busy
1) Create word template and
store it in safe place. 2) Copy
template to temp folder 3) Open in
programicaly in C# and replace
"" with ur data
.Replace('', 'Voon') 4)
Programiticaly print to PDF and save
it.
Only a plugin can modify the acrobat/reader toolbar. There might be C# bindings for the acrobat API these days, but I wouldn't count on it.
PS: You can make Acrobat plugins for free. To "Reader Enable" a plugin requires Adobe's direct intervention, and $$$. They sign a version of the plugin, and only that signed version will run in Reader.
Your best bet is to go looking for some third-party PDF viewer. I still wouldn't count on this feature being available, but it's better odds than "0".
I'm looking for a way to display a PDF (similar to a picture box), in a Windows Form. After that I need to be able to create a PDF. What's the best library for the job for creating the PDF (from simple text)? I've taken a look at several and I'm not sure which one is the best. Preferably open source. As for the control, I tried the COM object Adobe provides... I can't seem to get it working. At all. I've tried loading several files, there are no errors. It simply fails to load.
PDF Sharp, Sharp PDF and iTextSharp are excellent. They are all OpenSource.
To answer your question about getting the PDF to render, you could use a WebBrowser Control on your form as long as the client workstation has Adobe Reader installed. The browser will automatically pick up the MIME type and load the in-browser Adobe Reader.
For rendering, I echo Will Marcouiller and SLaks. We have had good success with PDFSharp.
For creating pdf's iTextSharp is very good, and it's free too.
I worked with SharpPDF and it did great job. And it's open source.
I've searched Stackoverflow and google and found many ways
how I can print stuff in C#.
The best way for me would be to populate blank white windows form
with some label, textbox and picturebox elements and print it as a windows form.
This way is very poor because it prints in 72 DPI, and is not flexible for multiple
pages print.
Next way that I found that would be good is using iTextSharp, but there is a problem
that iTextSharp only generates PDF-s, and you have to open it in PDF viewer and print
from there.
I love this way of thinking where I create a paragraph, and then fill it with text and graphic, so I found this thread
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/C-Sharp/Printing-Using-C-sharp/
where it discusses how to create your own printing engine in C#, something like iTextSharp,
but very lightweight...
Now that I've said that, I want to know is there any ready to use printing engine that would be like iTextSharp, made for printing, not for PDF generation? What is the best way to print something, without using reporting services like CrystalReports.
I think Crystal Reports wouldn't work for my case cause I don't want to print generic reports, but some text and graphics that I need to dynamicaly generate every time I need to print.
I found that it was much easier to do printing using the printing stuff in WPF.
EDIT
XPS is the page description format that Microsoft included into .NET with .NET 3.0. It is nominally part of WPF, and is integrated with the WPF form layout model. But you can create XPS documents in memory and send them to printers, from any .NET app, including a WinForms App.
An example:
http://statestreetgang.net/post/2008/03/Creating-an-XPS-document-in-memory-via-the-DOM.aspx
It is approximately equivalent to the iTextSharp capability you explored, except:
you can do it all in memory if you like, no need to save to a filesystem file. Of course if you want to save to a filesystem file, you can do that too.
you don't need an external viewer in order to start the print.
If you are new in programming and you have some data like from Data Base, and you want to print it after retrieving it from Data Base. Then just follow this link it will guide you step by step.
Print Data in Dot Net (C#,Vb.net)
Does anyone know if the following is possible and if so what the best way of doing it is for free?
I am generating a PrintDocument in a project I am currently working on and displaying a print dialog box so a user can choose which printer they want to use etc. The is currently a windows form application and if a user wants to print to a PDF they can select to print to CutePDF or something similar.
However I am now putting a ASP.Net web frontend on the application and want to use the same code to generate the PrintDocument but want to print it to a PDF on the fly and serve it up via the Response stream in the format of a PDF download.
So my question is....How can I use the current PrintDocument and generate a PDF in memory from it??
Thanks
The System.Drawing code for a PrintDocument can be reused to generate a PDF document with ABCpdf .NET. See the System.Drawing example...
You would have to use a 3rd party component in order to generate the PDF. The following article has some links to some such components: Generating PDF Files from .Net
You're in a world of hurt if you think you're going to run the "same code" that deals with printers in both a forms app and an ASP.NET app.
You might be in luck, however, as it appears that PDFsharp + MigraDoc might be able to do this for you.
I think you will find there is not any tools that will take a PrintDocument as input and render a PDF as output. The only way to do what you want is to "print" the PrintDocument to a "PDF printer driver" that will generate PDF. Basically a virtual printer that will generate PDF instead of printing the actual output. There are a plethora of products on the market for that. A couple that are cheap and widely used are as follows:
Ghostscript with RedMon (open source/GPL or commercial licenses available)
Foxit Software's PDF Creator ($29)
You really should be looking at iTextSharp (it is mentioned on the iText.NET page recommended earlier)
http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/
PrintDocument is meant for Windows Forms applications but is up and coming in SilverLight, see this video... http://silverlight.net/learn/videos/all/printing-api-basics/
If you wish to continue with the PrintDocument and a web application, I think SilverLight 4 (which is beta right now) is the only way to go, or your going to have to have a lite weight windows form application installed locally for the end user that maybe uses web services.
iTextSharp is a great tool for generating PDFs with .NET on the Internet. I highly recommend it; I've used iText with Java...and have been using iTextSharp for the past few years.
There are several ports of iText for .NET (A very popular open-source PDF library for Java).
http://www.ujihara.jp/iTextdotNET/en/