>Ok, here we are with the request to generate a PDF from scratch, based on tables and fields, in our application. So, the client wants a clean good looking PDF report. Anyone has a good recommendation of a library that would be as simple as dropping a DLL in the Bin directory and obtain that namespace support from the .NET project?
Definitely look at iTextSharp
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/very versitile and powerful and can also be very useful for filling out PDF forms. If you really want good looking PDFs one way to do it is design the layout using a good graphics program, then make it a PDF form and fill it out with iTextsharp from data. (you can scan forms, for example and make fillable PDFs and then fill them in with iTextsharp)
It also had the ability to completely create a PDF from scratch, but I think that is the hard way and I would at least start with a template, just as you would use letterhead stationary in the "old world"
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