>>>>>I meant that for Viv. The iText he refers to is the original Java library that was ported to iTextsharp for .NET
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>>>>Ok
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>>>As Charles pointed out I should have said ITextSharp.
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>>>If the document requirements are fairly simple and do not change too much then you could consider writing your own PDF generator. I've also done that - but it will require wading through the documentation (http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf) to get a clear understanding of the structure
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>>I've done that in the past - fairly limited - in foxpro
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>>A class that could 'read' pdf files.
>>- Delete a page
>>- Duplicate a page
>>- Add text on any page ( font, fontsize, position)
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>>Then write the modified contents to a new pdf
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>I was always creating a new PDF from scratch which simplified things a bit - didn't have to parse an existing document. IIRC, the only tricky bit was calculating/writing the xref section at the end.....

Parsing a document is fun

And yes to the xref