iText help or some other ideas...

Question

User65180582 posted

Here is where I am at, have a web site that the user takes a test and then after gets a certificate of completion.  I am trying to use iTextSharp to generate the certificate in pdf format so that the user is less likely to change the data (ie: put another persons name on it or type in a different date) Also, the pdf is much easier to store in the users database.  At this point I am trying to just create a pdf document "hello world" so I can understand the code in VWD.  I bought the iText Book, have looked at the few examples on the web, but for some reason I can't get the code to operate in VWD.

Is there anyone out there that could shed some light on this?  Or is there a better way to do this that will not set me back 500 bucks?

Answer 1

User-2118227238 posted

Is this still an issue for you? iText is an excellent open source library and I have been able to generate quite complex data driven PDF's using it. I have even implemented systems using iText to replace Crystal Reports based reporting due to firewall issues with Crystal Reports.

Let me know if you need any help...

Answer 2

User-1767092133 posted

Hello,

here is my iTextSharp (written in C#). The code compiled but I do not see any PDF file that is generated. I added the reference itextsharp.dll (version iTextsharp.5.0.0) What am I doing wrong. Will this happen once I deploy it on the IIS 6 server? I have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed Adobe Reader 9.3.

Below is my source code.

using System;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;



public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Chapter 1 example 1: Hello World");

        // step 1: creation of a document-object
        Document document = new Document();

        // step 2:
        // we create a writer that listens to the document
        // and directs a PDF-stream to a file
        PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream("Chap0101.pdf", FileMode.Create));

        // step 3: we open the document
        document.Open();

        // step 4: we add a paragraph to the document
        document.Add(new Paragraph("Hello World"));

        // step 5: we close the document
        document.Close();

    }
}