I would like to create a PDF from the data i have in a microsoft access database. Can someone please tell me what I should use to make this happen? Any tips and steps are appreciated.
One way of doing it is creating a report (you can use CrystalReports) against your AccessDB data, and then exporting that report to PDF.
Other way of doing it is creating a little program in C# and generate a PDF using an Open Source PDF generator like iTextSharp, PDFCreator or Report.NET. There are also a lot of commercial libraries available.
Other way of doing it is creating a little Java program and generate PDF using iText.
Other way of doing it is creating a little insert your favorite programming language here and generate a PDF using a suitable library for it.
try this old link I have used this and it produces PDF direcly fron access full credits to Mr Lebans just follow his clear instructions
http://www.lebans.com/reporttopdf.htm
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I have a simple asp.net registration form where users fill out the information to register. I have it captured in an oracle database.
Is there a way i can generate a pdf from the data in the database and show it like a actual pdf form?
I looked at itextsharp and it has some licensing restrictions. What are some of the other free solutions that stackoverflow users has used that will help my problem?
Thanks
itextsharp is free to use for non-commercial development, but if you use for commercial development then you either need to obtain a license or make your code available under the GPL license.
Here are some alternatives to itextsharp:
PDFSharp is a free option, however its latest release is from 2009.
There is an open-source version of PDFjet.
PDF Clown
You can get the form with contents as PDF, by using the service pdfmyform.com - this is a commercial service that lets you convert the whole webpage including form contents in one go to a PDF, without any development. There's a free plan for limited use.
I've been looking around on the web for an answer to a perplexing problem. I'm trying to code a program in C# and I'm looking for a snippet of code that'll take any information a user would input, i.e using a textbox or a check box, and transfer said information onto a .PDF file that I've added as a resource.
Right now I'm using Visual Studio 2008 for my coding, any help would be appreciated.
You can use librairies to create PDF on the fly:
ITextSharp
PDF's are a proprietary format. PDF4Net is a pretty good library for merging information via XDF into PDF's, but you are going to have a lot of trouble trying to do this on your own natively.
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.
I am developing application wich produce a report with graph. I read about free C# libraries to create PDF but I can't see any completely FREE geenrator to use in application that I want to sell. Can you give me one?
Other problem is to generate a simple chart. What are the tools to create such a graph? I need to put it into pdf document after generating it.
Thx for help!
PDF reporting could be done using nfop. I know someone who has done PDF with that, but I do not know more.
Regarding the charting: you could use Microsoft Chart controls, render to an image and include an image in the PDF.
The background right now is that I coded website for the client and as part of the website I have a service calling a webpage every 5-10 minutes to generate some PDFS that become available on the website. The PDFs just contain a data dump of a table that is displayed on the website.
The new requirements are to add a cover page and apply a color scheme to the PDF report which replicates the view on the website.
I'm unsure how to go about this using C# and VS2008 with the backend database being MySQL. I originally thought about creating a report and then somehow programmatically rendering and saving it as a PDF, but because we are using MySQL that throws out the possibility of using Sql Server Reporting Services. Is there any other open source and/or free solution that will allow me to create and design the report and then programmatically create and save as a pdf without any user interaction?
Your best bet is iText here. It supports creating pdf programmatically in java or C#. We use it where I work to do just this thing (also using MySQL on the backend). I also recommend buying the book. It has lots of good examples, and if you purchase the book, you get a pdf version of the book.
Try TCPDF. Though written in PHP, it has no external dependencies, has plenty of options and examples included. Works fast and reliable, no problems with fonts, etc.
jsreport supports exactly this kind of pdf generation. You first create a report layout and dynamic structure using html, css and javascript templating engines. Then you just send the data and invoke the rendering using c# classes.
This blog post should give you more info how to do it.
Disclaimer: I am the author of jsreport.