.NET Design Patterns

iTextSharp for the PDF output

To produce the output of a document in the PDF format, we plan to use the .NET version of the open source iText library.

Note

The library can be downloaded from the iTextSharp website at the following address: https://www.nuget.org/packages/iTextSharp/.

A simple program, which produces a PDF document using the library, is given next to make the reader understand the programming model of this library:

 using iTextSharp; using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; //------some code omitted FileStream fs = new FileStream(@"D:\ab\fund.pdf", FileMode.Create); Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 25, 25, 30, 30); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs); document.AddAuthor("Praseed Pai"); document.AddCreator("iTextSharp ...