PDF from scratch

sleggbengt

Hi! I want to build up a PDF document directly via code, without using any pdf-printers etc. I'm hoping that someone here knows about any good documentation regarding how to do this. Maybe even someone has anything helpful for me to get started. with this. Best regards!

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Rahul Prasad4y ago
Spire.PDF for .NET is an easy-to-use class library for creating and manipuating PDF document in C#. Here is a set of comprehensive docuemntation about how to create a PDF document and insert text, images, and any other elements in it.

https://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide-Content.html
Anjali Joshi4y ago
Checkout the following links:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/jspdf
https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF
Marvin Reid4y ago
You can use the Document Editor from the LEADTOOLS SDK to create a new PDF programmatically. Here are resources that will help you with this.
https://www.leadtools.com/help/sdk/v22/dh/javascript/de/namespace.html#!
https://demo.leadtools.com/JavaScript/DocumentEditor/
ahnguyen22y ago
check out this open source project. Its a C# port of iText, a Java API for generating PDF documents. http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/ Hope this helps, A
pseudobill200422y ago
Check out AdLib at www.adlibsys.com. I use it to construct user-designed 'book' hierarchies from various documents, via code.
spgilmore22y ago
There are a lot of good components out there for this if you want to spend a few dollars. Here's the one I use: http://www.pdflib.com/ If not, consider writing your own. Adobe has published the PDF spec. http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp