.NET component for conversion to PDF

Question

Hi,

I am looking for .NET component to convert different files into PDF format. Right now I need to be able to convert programmatically doc, xls and TIFF files to PDF. But I may need to deal with more file types in near future.

I looked at Aspose.Words, it works good but for doc only. Is there any component on the market that would allow me to convert in my code all three file types?

I would appreciate your suggestions.

Thanks, Anvar

Answer 1

Aspose has more components to handle the other file types.

I know of no other component vendor which supports as many different formats as the Aspose components, assuming that you don't want to use some Interop-with-PDFWriter kind of solution.

Answer 2

Syncfusion's Essential PDF will handle these formats directly, as well as providing a programmatic API which you can use to add other formats.

Answer 3

From doc to pdf you can use this:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/sertf2pdf.aspx

Answer 4

BCL EasyPDF is good for the job, I guess.

Answer 5

This topic have been discussed quite a lot on SO. Just do a quick search for "asp net pdf generation". For example, here are two of the questions, and there are more:

.Net server based PDF generation
Generation PDF from HTML (.Net component)

Answer 6

I might as well put a shameless plug in for a product that I have worked on. The Muhimbi PDF Converter services is a server based product that allows typical office documents, as well as an increasing number of other file types, to be converted to PDF using a web services based interface (java / .net examples are included).

A .net example can be found here.