Create PDF Files on fly in C#

It's easy to generate PDFs using the open source iText library.

Step 1: First create an instance of document object

Document myDocument= new Document(PageSize.A4.Rotate());

Step 2: Now create a writer that listens to this doucment and writes the document to desired Stream.

PdfWriter.GetInstance(myDocument, new FileStream("Salman.pdf", FileMode.Create));

Step 3: Open the document now using

myDocument.Open();

Step 4: Now add some contents to the document

myDocument.add( new Paragraph ( "First Pdf File made by Salman using iText"));

Step 5: Remember to close the documnet

myDocument.close();

There's a full code sample below to get you started.

// Code

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;

using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

public class iTextDemo 
{
 public static void Main() 
 {
  Console.WriteLine("iText Demo");

  // step 1: creation of a document-object
  Document myDocument = new Document(PageSize.A4.Rotate());

  try 
  {

   // step 2:
   // Now create a writer that listens to this doucment and writes the document to desired Stream.

   PdfWriter.GetInstance(myDocument, new FileStream("Salman.pdf", FileMode.Create));

   // step 3:  Open the document now using
   myDocument.Open();

   // step 4: Now add some contents to the document
   myDocument.Add(new Paragraph("First Pdf File made by Salman using iText"));

  }
  catch(DocumentException de) 
  {
   Console.Error.WriteLine(de.Message);
  }
  catch(IOException ioe) 
  {
   Console.Error.WriteLine(ioe.Message);
  }

  // step 5: Remember to close the documnet

  myDocument.Close();
 }
}