PDF Writer for Win CE

[Tedmond]

Dear all,

Does anyone know how to create a PDF file in Win CE? I don't mind to buy a
third party utility. I have seached on the Web but found no PDF library for
CE.

It would be great if someone can introduce me such lib or utility.

Thanks for any help.

Tedmond

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

I did a search for the following:

"compact framework PDF library"

And amazingly the #2 result pointed me here:
http://www.componentsource.com/features/pdf-creation/net-compact-framework/index.html


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Giving back to the embedded community
http://community.OpenNETCF.com

 

[mind_the_gap]

Hi there,

some days ago I had the same problem - I needed to write PDFs out of
my C#-Application.
So I took a look and found iTextSharp (http://
itextsharp.sourceforge.net/). This is a free and open source PDF
library for the .Net-Framework. Unfortunately it did not run out of
the box on the compact framework, but with some hours of investigation
I ported it and now it works.

I did not have any time to tell the iTextSharp people about it and I
don't know if they mind. But if you are interested - I could send you
my port and you have a very good PDF library (thanks for that to the
iTextSharp Team) which is free.

Regards,
Tom

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Why not submit it back to the original project? Hopefully you kept the code
usable by both desktop and CF.


--

Chris Tacke, Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF Consulting
Giving back to the embedded community
http://community.OpenNETCF.com

Hi there,

some days ago I had the same problem - I needed to write PDFs out of
my C#-Application.
So I took a look and found iTextSharp (http://
itextsharp.sourceforge.net/). This is a free and open source PDF
library for the .Net-Framework. Unfortunately it did not run out of
the box on the compact framework, but with some hours of investigation
I ported it and now it works.

I did not have any time to tell the iTextSharp people about it and I
don't know if they mind. But if you are interested - I could send you
my port and you have a very good PDF library (thanks for that to the
iTextSharp Team) which is free.

Regards,
Tom

 

[mind_the_gap]

Hi, sure I will submit it back to them. I made the code condionally
compile for WinCE - but all the code should work on the Desktop, too.

 

[Chris Tacke, eMVP]

Great. Community contribution is what keeps projects like that alive.

-Chris

Hi, sure I will submit it back to them. I made the code condionally
compile for WinCE - but all the code should work on the Desktop, too.

 

[Tedmond]

Hi Tom and Chris,

I have tried the iTextSharp and done the simular job as Tom did. However, I
fail to add image to the PDF document since it always convert the file path
to URI and try to get it through http. I can only make it work in Win CE
without image. Did you solved this problem? Could you please send me your
code?

Thanks for your help.

Tedmond