PDF API Recommendations

[Brad Jones]

I'm looking for recommendations on APIs avaiable for integrating PDF functionality (creation of) into a .NET application. Anyone have any recommendations for products they've used?

Thanks,

Brad!

[mcmcom]

this thread has several suggestions, both free and pay.

hope it helps.

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/de...et.12.314597.7

mcm

[diehardii]

itextsharp is good and only takes a couple of hours with the API to make a basic report with tables and graphics

[aniskhan]

CutePDF

[torrud]

The question is what kind of PDF functionality you need. If you want to create plain text documents there are several libraries available for .NET like the previous posters wrote. But if you want to create PDF forms I did not figure out a good library for .NET. Maybe someone else found such a library.

[taladon]

Let me clarify what I'm looking for...
I want a programatic (c#) way of creating pdf files that contain text and possibly images without having to manually in code calculate the x y coordinates of each piece of text i want to put in the pdf. I'm looking for something that plugs into Visual Studio that works similar to Crystal Reports, where you can design the pdf file graphically, binding data to placeholders in the form to create a customized result.
There may not really be anything that means these kind of goals, but I was hoping there was.

Thanks

--taladon