PDF Guidance needed

[kcwallace]

Hello,

I have an ASP.Net application using the .Net 2.0 Framework. I need to convert an HTML Report to PDF format.

Can someone offer some possible solutions for creating the PDF. Creating from Crystal Reports is, unfortunately, out of the question at this time.

Is it best to buy a development license from Adobe? We are not giving our users the capabilty to create their own PDFs. I only need to create a PDF and then save it so I can email it later. And there can be no user interference to generate the document

Are there good alternatives to using Adobe's, and what do I sacrifice by using a third party?

THis application is completely internal.

Any help, or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[tfowler]

Try the opensource tool iTextSharp (http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/). The documentation isn't very clear (since it was ported from a Java tool), but once you get it working, it works very well. I've used it for a couple of projects.

Todd

 

[kcwallace]

THank you for your help. I will try that