Tod1d's Thought Process

A project that I am working on required the dynamic creation of a fax document, populated with data from a database and then sent to a fax server at runtime. I tried two methods for creating the fax document.

The first method was dynamically creating a Word document using Gios WORD .NET Library, which worked as long as you had MS Word installed on the machine that executed my code. Very annoying.

Creating a PDF file on the fly using iTextSharp was the second method I tried and settled on. Here is a description of iTextSharp as given on their website:

iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library written
entirely in C# for the .NET platform. iText# is a library that allows you to
generate PDF files on the fly. It is implemented as an assembly.

iTextSharp works great, plus it is FREE (as in beer). I would deffinately recommend it.

iTextSharp Home Page

iTextSharp Documentation