I have a complicated report that I need to draw with GDI+ (I don't know of a better way) with multiple pages and have it save to PDF so the user can download. What is the best way to do this?
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Not sure how complex your report is and what you are doing with GDI+ but here's some ideas that may help:
Checkout ITextSharp and/or PDFSharp.
The spark view engine also has pdf generation built in.
As another thought.... If you have access to SQL Report server and/or at least it's client and can use it to create your report you can generate and call from .Net MVC and output as PDF.
Check out this SO answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/779430/asp-net-mvc-how-to-get-view-to-generate-pdf
klabranche
2010-02-26 20:09:54
definitely - buy a pre-built component. They're inexpensive and prolific.
No Refunds No Returns
2010-02-26 20:25:38
PDFSharp looks like it will fit my needs perfectly. Thanks
Max Schmeling
2010-02-26 22:23:31
Glad this helped you!
klabranche
2010-02-26 22:55:24
the link you posted to PDFSharp is apparently an older site. That site points to the current link: www.pdfsharp.net
Brian Vander Plaats
2010-02-26 23:45:03
Thanks for catching that @Brian-vander-plaats.
klabranche
2010-02-26 23:58:48
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There is another way of doing it, install Bullzip on the server, and using the COM interface, you can programmatically print it out to a pdf document which I would think would be less hassle...simply select the Bullzip PDF Printer as the active printer and print it out to a destination pdf folder. Have a look at this here to see how the COM works...the COM interface is the same as bioPDF's COM model.
Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.
tommieb75
2010-02-26 20:42:14
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I'm a fan of Data Dynamics ActiveReports myself. Probably has a little do with the fact that they're local in town, and if I have a problem I can just call them up. Very good reporting engine though. Prints directly to PDF.
Joel Etherton
2010-02-26 20:44:17