Most of the projects have requirements to get reports in Word, Excel, PDF etc. While there are various ways to achieve these objectives, sometimes for quick development it makes sense to use third party component to do the same. I have used one such third party component called as Officewriter from SoftArtisan. And I must say that I was really impressed by this product and its features. It basically emits office documents from the server without actually installing MS office on the server. This is a cool feature for the web based applications. However there is also requirement to generate lot of PDF files these days. I am aware that there are lots of free/open source libraries available on the net to do the same. There are some cool third party components too available. One of them is given below.
Aspose.Pdf is a .Net component for writing Pdf documents without using Adobe Acrobat. It supports converting HTML, Word documents to PDF. It is possible to create PDF using API or XML templates or XSL-FO. The latest version also supports XML Meta data along with form fields, images etc. This component is written in managed code only and till now supports .NET version up to 2.0. If you want have a look at the features available then following is the URL:
http://www.aspose.com/Wiki/default.aspx/Aspose.Pdf/ProductOverview.html
Cheers,
Amol
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