Creating PDFs with i. Text. Sharp. Updated 2. Added a bullet regarding using i. Text. Sharp with a medium trust shared web hosting provider in the notes section. How many times have you been asked to generate a report in an open file format such as PDF Text. Sharp, a free C PDF library ported from the Java PDF Library i. Text, gives you a nice option. Important Breaking Changes. For some reason a lot of people using i. TextSharp primarily want to use the library for HTML to PDF conversion. It also seems the percentage of. NET developers is higher. I completely agree with the comment by Mark Storer, an i. Text committer, at the bottom of that page. With that being said, the development team is shifting their their efforts from the HTMLWorker class traditionally used to convert HTML to PDF to XMLWorker, which was released on 2. 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TextSharp has never made HTMLXML to PDF conversion one of its main goals or selling points. Whether you use HTMLWorker or XMLWorker, DO NOT EXPECT A FULL BLOWN CONVERSION TOOL, YOU WILL BE DISSAPOINTED Text 5. Generics System. Collections. Generic Namespace in many classes. Prior versions used collections from the System. Collections Namespace. Due to a lazy, stupid question on the mailing list, the source code for all i. Text. Sharp versions prior to 5. GNU Lesser General Public Licensewere removed on 2. Source. Forge source code file download page. If you think thats a harsh statement, the tutorial code referenced by the OP was clearly dated as almost SIX YEARS OLD. Text 5. 0. 6, released on 2. IDisposable interface for all classes that implement the IDoc. Listener interface or inherit from the Pdf. Stamper class. So if you prefer, creating a PDF is now a four step process just add a using statement and you can forget all those Close calls. Another simple specific example using both Document and Pdf. Stamper. The Table and Header. Footer objects in the original code snippets written sometime in 2. Text 5. 0. 0, which was released on 2. For those still using an older version of i. TextSharp, a stand alone example is included in the section below titled Example for i. Text. Sharp Versions Less Than 5. XX the FOSS license was also changed from MPLLGPL to AGPL starting with i. Text 5. 0. 0. Here is a mailing list thread that describes some of the reasons for the license change. But a word of advice youre better off going with the newer 5. Ready To Print Handbook For Media Designers Pdf Writer. X. x branches. Getting Started. In general creating a PDF with i. TextSharp is a five step process. Instantiate a Document object. Get an instance of the Pdf. Writer object. Open the Document instance. Add content to the Document instance. Close the document. As explained above you can omit step 5 from i. Text. Sharp 5. 0. The following example shows how to. Create a centered, single page document header. If you need to add page headers to all pages of your document see Adding PDF Page Headers, which shows the recommended method to add page headers using the Pdf. Page. Event. Helper class. Add a center aligned image to the document. Add a center aligned paragraph to the document. Add tabular formatted data to the document. Text. Sharp Versions 5 and Above. Creating our PDF going from step 1 through 4. Uncomment where specified Document using statement if using anything less than 5. ONLY if using version 5. Document doc new Document. AND comment out line above if youre. Document doc new Document. Pdf. Writer writer Pdf. Writer. Get. Instancedoc, Response. Output. Stream. doc. Open. create document header shows GMT time when PDF created. Header. Footer class removed in i. Text 5. 0. 0, so we instead write. Rectangle page doc. Page. Size. Pdf. PTable head new Pdf. PTable1. head. Total. Width page. Width. Phrase phrase new Phrase. Date. Time. Utc. Now. To. Stringyyyy MM dd HH mm ss GMT. FontFont. Font. Family. COURIER, 8. Pdf. PCell c new Pdf. PCellphrase. c. Border Rectangle. NOBORDER. c. Vertical. Alignment Element. ALIGNTOP. c. Horizontal. Alignment Element. ALIGNCENTER. head. Add. Cellc. head. Write. Selected. Rows. Pos of the table. Height doc. Top. Margin head. Total. Height 2. 0. Direct. Content. add image to document. Image gif Image. Get. Instance. Request. Map. Pathkyouyuuimagekuujinbo. Alignment Image. MIDDLEALIGN. Scale. Percent5. Addgif. Paragraph p new ParagraphUS Presidents Born in state. Alignment 1. doc. Addp. table data, see code snippet following this one. Add state. Table. REQUIRED if using version lt 5. Close. below and comment out the bracket below Close. Creating a simple table is easy query the database data access code omitted and add each rowset to the table in the PDF. PDF document. private Pdf. PTable state. Table. No., Name, City. Pdf. PTable table new Pdf. PTable3. default table width 8. Width. Percentage 1. Set. Widthsnew Single 1, 5, 4. Spacing. Before 1. Length i. Pdf. PCell cell new Pdf. PCellnew Phrasecoli. Background. Color new Base. Color2. 04, 2. 04, 2. Add. Cellcell. Read is the Db. Data. Reader for whatever flavor. PDF. while r. Read. Add. Cellrid. To. String. table. Add. Cellrname. To. String. Add. Cellrcity. To. String. return table. Example for i. Text. Sharp Versions Less Than 5. XX. Heres a stand alone working HTTP handler that works with 4. Web. Handler LanguageC Classitext. ONLY WORKS for i. Text. Sharp lt 5. NOT available. using System. Web. using i. Text. Sharp. text. using i. Text. Sharp. text. IHttp. Handler. Process. Request Http. Context context. Http. Response Response context. Response. Response. Content. Type applicationpdf. Response. Append. Header. Content Disposition. Document doc new Document. Pdf. Writer writer Pdf. Writer. Get. Instancedoc, Response. Output. Stream. create document header shows GMT time when PDF created. Phrase phrase new Phrase. Date. Time. Utc. Now. To. Stringyyyy MM dd HH mm ss GMT. FontFont. COURIER, 8. Header. Footer header new Header. Footer phrase, false. Border Rectangle. NOBORDER. center header. Alignment 1. Header. Footer add header before opening document. Header header. doc. Open. add image to document. Image gif Image. Get. Instance. http kuujinbo. Alignment Image. MIDDLEALIGN. Scale. Percent5. Addgif. Paragraph p new ParagraphTable Heading. Concise Oxford Dictionary Ninth Edition. Alignment 1. doc. Addp. table data. Table table new Table3. Border. Width 1. Border. Color new Color0, 0, 2. Padding 4. table. Width 1. 00. set olumnwidths. Widths widths. string col COL 1, COL 2, COL 3. Length i. Cell cell new Cellcoli. Header true. cell. Background. Color new Color2. Add. Cellcell. table. End. Headers. for int i 1 i lt 5 i. Length j. table. Add. Cellstring. Format. Row 0, Cell 1. Addtable. Close. Is. Reusable. Dont forget to set the correct Content Type before you send the PDF stream if youre running a web application. Response. Content. Type applicationpdf. Response. Add. Header. Content Disposition. Creating PDF Documents with ASP. NET and i. Text. Sharp. By Scott Mitchell. Introduction. The Portable Document Format PDF is a popular file format for documents. Due to their ubiquity and layout. PDF technology. For example, an e. Commerce store may offer a printable receipt option that, when selected. PDF file within the browser. Last weeks article, Filling in PDF Forms with ASP. NET and. i. Text. Sharp, looked at how to work with a special kind of PDF document, namely one that has one or more fields defined. A PDF document can contain various types. For instance, there is a text field, a checkbox field, a combobox field, and more. Typically, the person. PDF on her computer interacts with the documents fields however, it is possible to enumerate and fill a PDFs fields programmatically, as we saw in last. This article continues our investigation into i. Text. Sharp, a. NET open source. PDF generation, showing how to use i. Text. Sharp to create PDF documents from scratch. We start with an example of how to programmatically define and piece. PDF file. Following that, we explore how to use i. Text. Sharps built in capabilities to convert HTML into PDF. Read. on to learn more Getting Started with i. Text. Sharp. There are a variety of. NET libraries available to programmatically create PDF documents. Perhaps the most popular is. Text. Sharp, which is the. NET version of the Java based i. Text PDF library. Part of i. Text. Sharps popularity stems from the fact that its open source. However, its important to. Text. Sharp is released under the GNU Affero General Public License AGPL version 3. This license requires that any application that uses i. Text. Sharp must also be released under the same license and that you must make your applications source code. Text. Sharps is. You can optionally buy a license to be released from the AGPL. While version 5. 0 and beyond is released under the more restrictive AGPL, previous versions were released under the. GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL, which allows the use of i. Text. Sharp within an application. LGPL. In other words, by using version 4 or earlier you can use i. Text. Sharp in your web application. The download available at the end of the article uses i. Text. Sharp. version 4. You can download i. Text. Sharp from its project page at http sourceforge. Alternatively, you can download the code at the end of this article, which includes the i. Text. Sharp version 4. Bin folder. named itextsharp. For assistance with i. Text. Sharp, I suggest the i. Text question. Creating a PDF Document from the Ground Up. Creating a PDF document from the ground up using i. Text. Sharp involves the following steps. Create a Document object, which models the PDF document you are creating. Create a Pdf. Writer object, which is the bridge between the Document object and a backing store. In other words, the Pdf. Writer. object is responsible for serializing the PDF document you create to some store, such as in memory or to disk. Add various elements to the Document object paragraphs, tables, images, and so on. And thats it Steps one and two are easy enough to implement and take just a couple of lines of code in total. Step 3, however, is where the bulk of the work is done. Here is where we go about creating the PDF documents elements and adding them, one at a time, to the document. The code for Step 3 can be long the bigger and more. PDF document you are trying to create, the more intricate this code will be. Steps 1 and 2 Creating the Document and Pdf. Writer Objects. Before we get bogged down in the details of Step 3, lets first take a moment to examine the code necessary to accomplish Steps 1 and 2. Create a Document objectvar document new DocumentPage. Size. A4, 5. 0, 5. Create a new Pdf. Writer object, specifying the output streamvar output new File. StreamServer. Map. PathMy. First. PDF. File. Mode. Create var writer Pdf. Writer. Get. Instancedocument, output Open the Document for writingdocument. Open. Step 3 Add elements to the document Close the Document this saves the document contents to the output streamdocument. Close. The first line of code creates a Document object specifying the documents dimensions and left, right, top, and bottom margins, respectively. Next, we create a Pdf. Writer object. In doing so we need to specify two bits of information the Document object being created and a Stream. Document objects output should be serialized when it is closed. In the code above we are using a File. Stream, which will cause the. PDF documents contents to be serialized to a file on disk named My. First. PDF. pdf. Following that the document object is opened. At this point were ready for Step 3 adding the assorted elements to the document. Once all of the elements have been. Pdf. Writer object to save the Document object to the specified Stream in this. My. First. PDF. pdf. Step 3 Adding Elements to the Document. When creating a PDF document you can add a number of different element types, including annotations, chunks, tables, lists, images, and paragraphs. There are classes in. Text. Sharp library that model these various element types. To add an element type to the document you typically create an instance of the appropriate element type. Document object via the Add method. For example, the following code snippet adds a new Paragraph. Hello, World. Create a new Paragraph object with the text, Hello, Worldvar welcome. Paragraph new ParagraphHello, World Add the Paragraph object to the documentdocument. Addwelcome. Paragraph. In fact, if we run the above code namely, the code snippet presented in Steps 1 and 2 Creating the Document and Pdf. Writer Objects with. PDF named My. First. PDF. pdf that contains the text, Hello, World, as the screen shot below show. For a good primer on adding common elements to a PDF document I recommend Mike Brinds excellent series of articles on. Text. Sharp Create PDFs in ASP. NET. There are individual. Putting It All Together Dynamically Creating a Receipt PDF. The demo available for download at the end of this article includes a web page named Create. PDFFrom. Scratch. PDF receipt. The. Order number, price, and what items were ordered, and these selections are used to dynamically create. PDF receipt. Of course, in a real world application this information would be pulled from a database and not hand entered by a user. The screen shot below shows the Create. PDFFrom. Scratch. Here, we are creating a receipt for Order 1. Clicking the Create Receipt button causes a postback and on postback a PDF is generated. The code that runs when the Create Receipt button is clicked a bit long to post in its entirety, so instead let me post just the germane portions, starting with Steps 1 and 2. Create a Document objectvar document new DocumentPage. Size. A4, 5. 0, 5. Create a new Pdf. Writer object, specifying the output streamvar output new Memory. Stream var writer Pdf. Writer. Get. Instancedocument, output Open the Document for writingdocument. Open. The above code snippet is quite familiar to the code snippet examined back in Steps 1 and 2 Creating the Document and Pdf. Writer Objects. with one important difference in the earlier example the created PDF was serialized to a file. Here, we are serializing the PDF to a Memory.