PDF library recommendations
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Regarding point 1, I generally embed a web page viewer. Most other points can be addressed using PDFSharp, this is an open source library which allows you to merge, edit, split, create, etc PDF's in .NET ... Highly recommended! You would need to build a front end round it for editing though.
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I had thought PDFSharp[^]gave you this ability - but it doesn't have the ability to render PDF - so I'm not certain if it will let you load an existing PDF and modify it. I have it installed on another PC I don't have access to at the moment, or I'd check it out. iTextSharp[^] has a similar ability, and does (apparently) have the ability to load a PDF, to which you can then make changes (programmatically) and save as PDF - but again, it doesn't render.
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
You can try PDFView4NET[^], per developer licensing with royalty free distribution. Sorin
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Aspose.Pdf [^] and Aspose.Pdf.Kit[^]
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I also believe Quick PDF Library allows you to do exactly what you want (rendering and all)[^] - but that's because I found it while searching for the home page of itextSharp - not through personal experience. It sounds like $250 well invested... I found this example...
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using QuickPDFAX0714;namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
private string LicenseKey = " your key here ";
private string OriginalFileName = "D:\\QuickPDFLibrary\\hello1.pdf";
private string NewFileName = "D:\\QuickPDFLibrary\\hello2.pdf";public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void Form1\_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { ShowPDF(OriginalFileName); } private void ShowPDF(string fileName) { PDFLibrary qp = new PDFLibrary(); qp.UnlockKey(LicenseKey); qp.LoadFromFile(fileName); // Fit width of PDF to width of picture box int dpi = Convert.ToInt32((pictureBox1.Width \* 72) / qp.PageWidth()); byte\[\] bmpData = (byte\[\])qp.RenderPageToVariant(dpi, 1, 0); MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(bmpData); Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(ms); pictureBox1.Image = bmp; ms.Dispose(); } private void pictureBox1\_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) { PDFLibrary qp = new PDFLibrary(); qp.UnlockKey(LicenseKey); qp.LoadFromFile(OriginalFileName); // Calculate co-ordinates, width of PDF fitted to width of PictureBox double xpos = ((double)e.X / (double)pictureBox1.Width) \* qp.PageWidth(); double ypos = qp.PageHeight() - ((double)e.Y / (double)pictureBox1.Width) \* qp.PageWidth(); qp.SetTextSize(24); qp.SetTextColor(1, 0, 0); qp.DrawText(xpos, ypos, "A"); qp.SaveToFile(NewFileName); ShowPDF(NewFileName); } }}
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
It sounds like $250 well invested...
Or it might be $100000 in marketing well invested...
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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I use Aspose, too. It is great for creating/changing PDFs and has rendering capabilities too. Rendering is always a little buggy particularly when you do conversions from other doctypes; e.g., MS-Word. But, in general, I couldn't find anything better - especially since I needed an OEM license.
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
GDPicture.Net is what I have been using for viewing(pdf and images) and it is pretty good. I am still looking for a good editing suite and will look into some of the recomendations here
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I had thought PDFSharp[^]gave you this ability - but it doesn't have the ability to render PDF - so I'm not certain if it will let you load an existing PDF and modify it. I have it installed on another PC I don't have access to at the moment, or I'd check it out. iTextSharp[^] has a similar ability, and does (apparently) have the ability to load a PDF, to which you can then make changes (programmatically) and save as PDF - but again, it doesn't render.
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We use PDFSharp to generate pdfs programatically because our printer insisted on getting pdfs and only by going through the printer are we allowed to mail anything. I don't allow the "client" to edit them because they need to reflect exactly what is in the data base for HR reasons. They can edit the templates before they generate the pdfs if they are really frantic - that way the image of the pdf in the data files is the same as the sent one.
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
I use iTextSharp to add logos or to merge different pdfs. It works well and fast. For the pdf viewer (in Windows Form) I use the standard WebBrowser control, but the Adobe Plugin must be installed, and I search something better. I'm investigating on a PDF rasterizer like: http://www.tallcomponents.com/products.aspx http://www.softwaresigloxxi.com/SuperPdf2ImageConverter.html Exists also an article in CodeProject: PDF Viewer Control Without Acrobat Reader Installed but it has a lot of dependencies.
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I know this gets asked a lot. But, I'm going to ask it. I want a PDF library to do three things 1 - embed a PDF viewer for PDFs that are text and images 2 - print PDFs from within our program 3 - provide PDF editing functionality. The two possibilities are a - full PDF editing or b - adding a logo to the PDFs at the bottom If there's a huge price gap between a and b, we may choose b. Otherwise, a is preferable. The other criteria is that I want no per seat licensing. That's the kicker. We use Atalasoft imaging SDKs and they have been really good, and their support is top notch, so I'd prefer to stick with them, but their PDF stuff has a per seat, and I don't want the hassle.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
(Disclaimer I worked on this component at Software Siglo XXI) Although one unique solution would be optimal, you could use a mix of components, so you get the best of the bread in each category. For 1 & 2 you could use ImageZoom Viewer for .NET (and possibly Super Pdf2Image Converter). It's available for both 32 and 64 bit and is very cheap and effective. I'd recommend you to try it. You can take a look here: http://softwaresigloxxi.com/ImageZoom.html[^]