On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 15:25 -0500, Jeremiah McElroy wrote: > There are, as far as I know, several .NET PDF libraries available. > PDFs are also, from what I've looked at, fairly easy to muck by hand > so it would be fairly easy, in theory, to create a PDF on the fly.
Just be careful to get one which will work with Mono. Several of the less expensive commercial libraries depend on Windows.forms and I don't know if that works well in Mono for this task. There are two free libraries on SF that support creating pdfs that work in mono. I can't remember what they are, but I believe one was a port of the java iText (correct?) library. I found them by going to sf.net and browsing through all the projects that were written in the C# programming language. Forgive me for being so vague... I'm going from memory. Of the two free libraries, one looked better for reports, the other looked like it was a bit easier to use. Let me also just chip in my 2 cents - as a linux user, I don't consider a program producing a PDF for me to be an ideal printing solution. I generally have a major distaste for PDF. I thought I was unique in that until I read Jakob Nielson's article on the subject. Nielson is one of the most highly regarded usability experts, even if he is a bit on the puritan side of usability. cf. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030714.html Now, if that is your only choice, do what you must. I will do it if I must. But if you can avoid it, I would suggest doing so unless you can seamless integrate PDF viewing into your application. If only HTML would support manual page breaks and setting of headers/footers our printing problems would be over! -- Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.followers.net - Makers of "Elite Content Management System" View samples of Elite CMS in action by visiting http://www.followers.net/portfolio/ _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
