PDF Generator

Question

What is the best commerical or non-commerical PDF Generator for .NET out there? I have looked at a few different ones, what do you all recommend? Does anyone have any production experience w/ any?? Morgan

katana · Answer

Mike.. did you ever take a look the different PDF Generators??

katana · Answer

Ok.. I'll wait for Mike then. I'm really curious. No one on most of the forums has much production experience with any of these yet.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Mike Gold is reviewing their products for the site. I am waiting to see what he says.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

No. I have not.

katana · Answer

Mahesh, I've seen TallComponents and taken a look at it, but I didn't really like the licensing on it. Do you have an production experience with it? I know the Acrobat suite is nice, but I do need the API and complete control to generate complicated PDFs. I've seen Chive Software has XSL-FO to generate PDFs, and O2 Solutions has a product as well.. Has anyone really used them??

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Tall Components provide API and products for PDF functionality. Check them out at tallcomponents.com.

chrishornberger · Answer

We use the Acrobat full suite at work, but really all we need is the printer driver for what we do (auto-generate reports from server side code for pasting to a webserver). Some of our guys also use Distiller (Which I believe only comes with the full suite but not sure) for turning custom PostScript into PDFs. Seems to work, but I wouldn't mind picking up a printer-driver only version for here at my home office if anyone else has any suggestions.