I needed to write a system which would take a system defined number of images from a database and present them in a well structured PDF document.
This was the first time I had looked at creating PDF documents on the fly in an ASP system without being able to render the contents into HTML first and then simply using a print driver to create the document for me.
My first stop was the Internet to see if there were any PDF DOM utilities out there for .NET. As you might expect this was not the first time anyone had tried to do this and as a result I found a plethora of systems which looked like they might fit the bill. On further investigation however, many of the candidates seemed to only have limited functionality with respect to image manipulation and supported formats. In short, after a few hours of trawling through the specifications and technical documentation of these solutions I plumped for PDF Sharp
PDF Sharp turned out to be a fantastic piece of kit which had excellent support for image and document manipulation and the documentation was as complete as you could want. I had a working system within half a day and the reporting module was totally finished within 2 days.
Awesome.
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