It's not the difficulty per se. There is ongoing maintenance and testing that need to be added into the picture.
There is a third option. There are several PDF libraries on CodePlex.
>I assumed that by 'external' Michel was referring to third party DLLs - in this case specifically ITextSharp.
>Writing a full-blown PDF generator would indeed be time consuming but if the requirements are fairly basic it's not too difficult.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer