PDF creation from vb.NET

[John Devlon]

Hi,

Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating
pdf-files from within VB.NET ?

I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF
pictures and some text.
Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good
product ?

Thanx

John

[Stephany Young]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

Adobe Acrobat.


"John Devlon" <johndevlon@hot mail.comwrote in message
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Hi,
>
Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating
pdf-files from within VB.NET ?
>
I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF
pictures and some text.
Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good
product ?
>
Thanx
>
John
>

[Plamen Ratchev]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

Hi John

One way is to use the Crystal Reports version that comes with Visual Studio
to generate PDF files. You can easily design reports that have pictures and
text and then specify the output format to be PDF. For example:

ReportObject.Ex portOptions.Exp ortFormatType =
CrystalDecision s.[Shared].ExportFormatTy pe.PortableDocF ormat

The down side is you have to distribute Crystal Reports with your
application.

Regards,

Plamen Ratchev

http://www.SQLStudio.com

[Tom Leylan]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

This gets you a starter list:

http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+pdf+library

Somebody created this subgroup:

http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries

This one you should look at:

http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries/itextsharp

because it is a dotnet port of this java one:

http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

If all you want to do is "print" simple .PDF files then a PDF printer driver
should suffice. There are free ones and cheap ones of them around. A
simple library will let you control a few more aspects but iText has been
developed for a very long time and was intended to control all aspects of
..PDF files. PDF files support encryption, passwords, bookmarks, data entry
and other things. A printer driver won't give you those features.


"John Devlon" <johndevlon@hot mail.comwrote in message
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Hi,
>
Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating
pdf-files from within VB.NET ?
>
I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF
pictures and some text.
Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good
product ?
>
Thanx
>
John
>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

John,

The use of PDF is a property of Adobe.

There is no Open Source from properties, using the property of somebody else
without paying or permission from the legal owner is in most countries named
stealing.

Cor

"John Devlon" <johndevlon@hot mail.comschreef in bericht
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Hi,
>
Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating
pdf-files from within VB.NET ?
>
I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF
pictures and some text.
Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good
product ?
>
Thanx
>
John
>

[Tom Leylan]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

Cor: That might be the case if the owner didn't give permission but I
believe you will find that Adobe expressly gives such permission.


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John,
>
The use of PDF is a property of Adobe.
>
There is no Open Source from properties, using the property of somebody
else without paying or permission from the legal owner is in most
countries named stealing.
>
Cor
>
"John Devlon" <johndevlon@hot mail.comschreef in bericht
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>Hi,
>>
>Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating
>pdf-files from within VB.NET ?
>>
>I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF
>pictures and some text.
>Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good
>product ?
>>
>Thanx
>>
>John
>>

>
>

[Fabio Z]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

"John Devlon" <johndevlon@hot mail.comha scritto nel messaggio
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Does anyone know any good plugin, activex, dll, sdk,... for creating
pdf-files from within VB.NET ?
>
I would like to create a multipage PDF-file with on each page some WMF
pictures and some text.
Is there a free, opensource solution or does anyone know any other good
product ?

You can also install PDFCreator as a virtual printer, so you can use that
printer from all your installed printing apps, and from your app via
PrintDocument.

[\(O\)enone]

Re: PDF creation from vb.NET

Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:

The use of PDF is a property of Adobe.

Anyone may create PDF files. PDF is an open standard file format. Adobe may
publish a variety of commercial software to allow this to be done, but there
is nothing to stop anyone else creating a PDF file quite legally if they
wish -- it's certainly not stealing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format

In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying that anyone can create files of
any type they like without putting themselves in a position where they could
be accused of stealing. If you use proprietary unlicensed software to do it,
or you put copyrighted content into the file, that's a different matter. But
AFAIA I can create any type of closed-standard file I like (.doc, .rar,
whatever) and it's still not stealing.

--

(O)enone