Ok, let's go through the threads and recommendations.
Type in "PDF" in the search bar above.
First thread is
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/e88d62a0-9e3d-416a-81c9-040f25ba04cd/pdf-to-stream?forum=winappswithcsharp The last 2 posts recommends the new 8.1 api, which is only for viewing. You can't create or edit with it.
The 2nd thread is
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/44be3067-0af5-4056-a4f3-f02ab1781e53/how-to-display-pdf-thumbnails-and-launch-pdThe f-viewer?forum=winappswithhtml5 It is about displaying the pdf in a thumb nail. Again, the recommendations
don't really help me.
The 3rd thread is
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/4bafa496-4ddb-4789-8f66-bf1b530d35d6/open-pdf-file?forum=winappswithcsharp The last post recommends the new 8.1 renderer for pdf. Does not create or edit.
The 4th thread is
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/eaba13f0-f405-4f9a-bce9-b2d0198421c3/how-to-show-pdf-in-webview?forum=winappswithcsharp Again with rendering, not actually creating or editing.
At this point, I would like to point out that if you google search "windows rt c# create pdf" half of the results will be about how to create an app that reads blogs. This makes me wonder. I am an engineer. A group of us is considering
recommending the company to buy a surface 2 for everyone to make the workflow faster and easier. I'm working on a software that helps. Isn't this what it's all about with the surface 2? MS has been trying to convince us that the surface is
more than just a blog and facebook reader. Why is MS so keen on making it a blog reading device then?
Anyway, onto other threads of the search.
The 5th thread is
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/46f26e50-5e66-49a6-95cf-a95bf8248a5b/display-and-edit-pdf-file?forum=winappswithcsharp Here someone is actually asking about editing and saving a pdf document. The first recommendation
is syncfusion, which costs thousands of dollars to buy the license for. ComponentOne is also recommended. Again, it is not a free library. MUPDF for winrt is also recommended. This thing only shows pdf. You can't create or edit
with it.
The 6th thread
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/7c6d46f7-8a8c-4709-bf03-92752878bfad/how-to-print-pdf-in-winrt?forum=winappswithcsharp is about printing a pdf file.
The 7th thread
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/64cbfea0-0b14-4d43-8102-7c7b4c607594/inapp-pdfs-for-windows-8?forum=winappswithcsharp is also about rendering. All the recommendations are for non-free libraries.
More of the same with threads 8 and 9.
Thread 10 is actually about generating a pdf.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/dbb2c258-ef75-48b9-8e6a-7f989af9ae4f/genate-pdf-file?forum=winappswithcsharp The 2nd post tells the person to do a search first and linked to another thread.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/416c4885-7381-424a-8b7e-5fb3674e03fc/programmatically-create-word-or-pdf-documents?forum=winappswithcsharp The linked thread has several recommendations, including iTextSharp and GemBox, none
of which is compatible with windows RT.
The next thread is
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/00b50ac8-aace-4698-ac01-2db950c780c7/how-to-generate-pdf-or-doc-from-image-in-windows-rt?forum=winappswithcsharp and the recommendations are syncfusion and componentone. Also another dead-end
thread.
The next several threads are about making a pdf reader.
Then we come to
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/00b50ac8-aace-4698-ac01-2db950c780c7/how-to-generate-pdf-or-doc-from-image-in-windows-rt?forum=winappswithcsharp which is about exporting to pdf in windows 8 app. Despite the obvious question,
which is generating a pdf document, the last post links to a way to view it. No help at all.
The rest of the posts in the first page again are about viewing pdf. None of the answers actually says anything about generating or editing a pdf document.
Would you like me to go on to the other pages in the search? Like I said, I have spent hours searching before I dared to ask a question on here. I know how you IT professionals hate questions from us non-IT folks. But please do try to be
patient with us idiots.
