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Creating PDF Documents in .Net using ITextSharp Pavan Vangara | Aug 30 2011 | 5 Comments

Report output to standard formats such as MSFT XLS, Word as well as PDF is standard practice for most portal sites. PDF formatted documents continue to be the accepted standard for universal reporting output due to the adoption of the Adobe Reader, document security and file compression capability. Adding PDF document creation to your portal site is dependent on language specific 3rd party components. Most 3rd party components are expensive and do not include the ability to be customized. ITextSharp is a free open source library that is used to create / update PDF documents. It even includes a library that may be customized. IText is the most popular open source component for the Java development environment and also released a .Net version of the library. The following steps explain how to implement the creation of PDF documents using the .Net library for iTextSharp. (ITextSharp supports all .Net versions 1.1 – 4.0)

Implementation

1. Download ITextSharp library from either distribution:
- a. http://itextpdf.com
- b. http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/files/itextsharp/iTextSharp-5.1.1/itextsharp-all-5.1.1.zip/download
2. Create new .Net Project
3. Add Reference to ITextSharp.dll
4. Add directives: using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
5. To create document base object and create as disk file Document doc = new Document(); PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream(PDFFileName, FileMode.Create));
6. Open “Create a PDF file” and add text: doc.Open(); doc.Add(new Paragraph("Hello World")); doc.Close();

That ends simple PDF document creation with simple text.

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Additional Options using the ITextSharp library.

Functional Options	Syntax
Adding Font Styles	doc.Add(new Paragraph(“Hello World”, new iTextSharp.text.Font( iTextSharp.text.Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 9,iTextSharp.text.Font.BOLD)));
Adding a Table	//Define table with 2 columns PdfPTable MyTable = new PdfPTable(2); //Table Settings MyTable.DefaultCell.Border = 0; MyTable.SpacingBefore = 10f; MyTable.TotalWidth = 80f; MyTable.SetWidths(new float[] { 60f, 40f }); MyTable.HorizontalAlignment = 0; //Adding Header Row MyTable.AddCell("Column1"); MyTable.AddCell("Column2"); //Adding Detail Rows MyTable.AddCell("Column1 Value"); MyTable.AddCell("Column2 Value"); ` //Adding defined table to document doc.Add(MonthlyRatetable);
Adding an Image	//Loading Image iTextSharp.text.Image MyImage = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(new Uri(ImageFileName)); //Define Scale MyImage.ScaleAbsolute(200f, 100f); //Adding Image to a table Cell. PdfPCell SignatureCell = new PdfPCell(MyImage);

Additional API’s can be explored at http://itextpdf.com. Almost every API that IText supports in Java is available in ITextSharp also.

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