I have made C# software to write PDFs ( on github here ), however PDFs with an embedded font subset which display fine in Adobe reader and other readers come out garbled on an iPhone. An example test PDF is here. Do you have any ideas on why, or suggestions on how I can find out what's wrong?
It could be as simple as a bug in your iPhone PDF viewing app.
If it tends to view correctly on different 3rd party viewers (including and excluding genuine Adobe technology) I'd lean towards that and inquire with the company making the app for them to formally investigate.
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I created web application using ASP.NET CORE 2 and used DinkToPdf to create and download the PDF to target directory. It is working really well to create and save PDFs. Now I want to use server side and print the PDF to target printer in the office. I couldn't find any solution to do this. Please help me.
Are you looking to integrate this functionality into your software? If so, there are several PDF libraries on the market with printing capabilities, some more reliable and full-featured than others.
If you're looking for a Windows command line utility to print PDFs to a target printer, you may be interested in PDF2PRINT, which allows you to do exactly that, as well as set optional parameters like duplex, collation, custom page ranges, number of copies, etc.
For future reference, questions like these should be posted in the Software Recommendations forum.
Apparently a question about Printing HTML in A4 and A5 format is the exact same thing as asking about Printing RTF formatted text, so here's another question with the details a bit more laid out.
I am developing a C# (WinForms) program that should print orders. This program is written for the .NET 2.0 framework. The program has to be able to print in both A4 and A5 paper formats, without any user interferrance (no dialogs). The printed order should look exactly like it does in a webbrowser. You can check out this sample if you like to see what it should look like. As you can see, very basic stuff.
Here's what I have tried so far:
Asking a question on StackOverflow, got closed for being a duplicate. Never found the duplicate.
Print with the WebBrowser element. Cannot print A5, so that was no solution.
Put the HTML in RichTextBox and print that. It worked, but it didnt show the HTML like it's viewed in a webbrowser, which is a requirement. Code can be found here.
I've looked into converting to PDF before printing, but that is either expensive or just impossible to use (for me, as a programmer with little C# experience). These tools usually rely on software being installed on the users' computer (like Acrobat Reader for printing), which I'm trying to avoid.
Viewed about every relevant link in Google for at least 13 pages, no luck. I've been at this for about 2 and a half days now.
If someone has a (free) better way to print formatted HTML like it's viewed in the browser without user interferrence or external dependancies, please share. I really need this to work.
Please don't close this question, believe me when I say I actively searched for a solution or article that describes my problem. Some were relevant, but did not solve the problem that I'm having. I also used the advanced searched on this website, with no luck.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Note: When I say I never found the duplicate, I mean I never found the article that literally describes my problem.
You're going to have to bite the bullet and use a PDF library, there is no way you are going to be able to fully control the end printed result from HTML with so many different users, browsers and printers. I did printing to A4 for an internal business application, we had a very limited user base (maybe 5) and all printing to a specific printer, even then it was flaky at best. I don't believe there is a way to distinguish between A4 and A5 without user interference, i.e. they have to select paper size from the print options.
Suggest you take a look at PDF Sharp, Sharp PDF and iTextSharp , they are all OpenSource.
This can all be done from the server, i.e. nothing needs to be installed on the users machine. It should be possible to select the paper size using this (I am not 100% sure), but what the end user prints it on ultimately up to them.
I have done this successfully using the PrintHelper method described here. I used it to enable users in multiple locations to print barcode labels from a CMS system. The labels had strict requirements regarding layout, font size and positioning and all this was managed using HTML and CSS.
The PrinterHelper class works by passing it a webcontrol populated with the print data (I used a repeater to allow multiple labels) & the helper class builds a page in memory and opens the print dialog. You register your CSS like so:
pg.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(pg.GetType(),"LabelCSS","<link href=\"Styles/labelPrint.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" />");
One caveat though, it only worked with Firefox, and some settings had to be changed e.g. margins set to zero, but as the CMS required the use of that browser it wasn't a problem.
I have a pdf file which I want to open in a Windows Forms Application and perform following tasks-
View the pdf document
Zoom +/- document
Search Text
Highlight a specific text
Show it in a listbox/dropdown
select those words and highlight in pdf
Remove selection/Highlight.
I have tried using certain libraries like pdfSharp/iTextSharp even Acrobat Reader OCX control.
Its really bugging me..is there any help??
I'd suggest looking at some means of converting the PDF if you don't have a direct need to edit it. Even then, it may be easier to convert to a different form, make changes, and then convert back. PDF is a form of PostScript, which makes it powerful, but also makes it a mess to deal with and my personal preference is to skip that headache. Not always avoidable (had a lot of fun creating Thai support in PDF print#home ticket creation once without bloating the document beyond unusable), but highly recommended where possible.
Anyways, there are a variety of PDF conversion libraries out there, some of which may be available for .NET. Worst case, you may need to create a managed C++ layer to allow your C# code to access them.
Doesn't acrobat reader OCX already have all those features ? What exactly doesnt the OCX do that you need to do in your code ?
You might try contacting Adobe and getting their full SDK for PDF. It might have controls which you can use to solve your problem.
Come to think of it , is there even an SDK for PDF from Adobe ?
You have not mentioned your preference of using Free or Commercial PDF Viewer option. If you are open to use Commercial PSF viewer, you may evaluate SyncFusion PDF Viewer control, Telerik PDF Viewer, Dynamic PDF Viewer or TallComponents. I have checked feature set and all seem to have features you are looking for. I do not represent or promote any of these SDKs, I have used TallComponents and Dynamic PDF for PDF manipulation and both have excellent support, I would say PDF Veterans in .NET space.
With C#, how can I print a PDF document (without any dialog boxes in the background) to an indicated printer?
I have used the following PDF library in the past to perform batch printing of PDF documents from a C# Windows Service.
http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/
It's a pretty decent library and if I remember correctly it only took a few lines of code to print the document. It worked very well and saved me a consider amount of time.
Also, the recommended link that discusses using DDE to launch a desktop application on a server to perform the printing is a bad idea. Adobe Reader probably doesn't support this and since it is a desktop application running in a windowless session you may run into problems with message boxes and dialog boxes. That solution just doesn't scale in my humble opinion.
here we go
Disclaimer: I work for Atalasoft
If you don't want to depend on Acrobat being on the server, you need to rasterize the PDF pages yourself and send them to the printer using the normal .NET printing API. We have a product that can rasterize PDF that uses the Foxit engine underneath. It deploys as a normal .NET assembly and doesn't require any other software to be installed.
Well, heres my scenario.
Client/Server winforms application with SQL Express as the DB. I need to be able to print invoice, packing slips etc..
i would like the customer to be able to modify the invoices. ie. be able to put their logo or change font sizes etc...basically format the display.
Things i have considered so far are.
1) Use a template engine (similar to codesmith or mygeneration) and use templates that output HTML. Then print the html page.
2) Use ReportViewer in local mode. I've heard that users can download a plugin for web dev express and edit the local report files. can anyone confirm this?
3) Use Reportviewer in remote mode.
I don't have much experience with ReportViewer so I'm not sure if i should use local or remote mode as well.
Those of you that have done this kind of thing before whats your recommendation?
After just completing a project with it, I would heartily recommend iTextSharp to create your invoices and other forms as PDFs. In addition to creating PDFs from scratch, you can also use it to fill in PDF forms and/or templates created with Acrobat (or even MS Office/OpenOffice). And it's free.
It's pretty easy to use in Windows apps or in ASP.Net applications. Most of the documentation and the books on it (iText in Action, for example) are about the original Java version, iText. However, there are tutorials and example code on the conversion process and, for the most part, all of the functions and libraries work the same in the .Net version, so adapting the book and reference code has been no problem.
I definitely learned the hard way that HTML and CSS are great for browsers (well, great except for the "every browser interprets it different" problem), but horrible for trying to generate consistent, attractive, and precise printed output and forms.
I'm personally using Aspose Words: they use word documents as templates, and I'm using Words bookmarks function to mark and retrieve the fields I need to fill.
Aspose works nicely with Tables (ie: you can add lines to a table, etc...) and sees Word documents as XML documents. You can then save the document as MSWord or PDF.
I wouldn't say it's the greatest library in the world, but it's definitely worth having a look :)
you can use Crystal Report for this. But first you need to scan the INVOICE and save it as an image,
Next is, on your crystal report, export the image on to it, and DRAG the fields to where they must print on the invoice (IMAGE SERVES AS YOUR GUIDE). Then after everything has been set-up, DELETE THE IMAGE and try it.
hope this helps.