Creating PDF files with C# .net 4.0

Miha Jan

16y15.3kAzure

Hi!
This is my first post, so please be gentle :)

I am looking for a C# library that can allow me to create PDF files from my database.
I found these two examples:

http://itextpdf.com/
and
http://www.pdfsharp.com/

does anyone have any other ideas or better alternatives? Does .net 4.0 have any capability to create PDF files?

Thanks.

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13y ago
You should also try Aspose.PDF for .NET Library for managing pdf files including creating, reading, modifying and converting pdf documents to other formats.
Mahesh Chand16y ago
Besides the links given by the members here I recommend you checkout third party components such as www.cete.com. Sometimes its easy to use third party components.
Suthish Nair16y ago
Welcome Miha to C# Corner.
yes by using free library itextsharp.dll.
Also check Our recommended articles section right side of this screen
support cete16y ago

Hello Miha,

I am working for ceTe Software Pvt ltd and we have products which suits your requirement. We have different products which you can use. Using our products you can generate PDF documents from scratch, merge existing PDF documents and add new content to existing PDFs, you can generate PDF reports using the data from a database or from a collection of objects. You can also print the PDF files to printer.

You will have to use the "DynamicPDF Generator" product from creating PDF document and "DynamicPDF Merger" for merging and working with existing PDF document. The "DynamicPDF Report Writer" is for creating PDF reports. You can also get all the above products together as DynamicPDF Core Suite.

We do have other products for converting files (word, excel etc) into PDF files (DynamicPDF Converter) and for the printing of the documents to printers (DynamicPDF PrintManager).

You can refer to our website at http://www.cete.com and you can download and evaluate our products. Please feel free to evaluate our products as per your requirements.

Thanks,

Ranga,
ceTe Software Support Team.
Shankey16y ago
hi miha,

I had a look at both the url specified by you. But there is a free dll itextsharp.dll, I already used this dll and there are lots of examples that you can find by googling some more.

Best of luck