Re: Looking for advice. What should I use to print PDFs?
If you don't mind having the user install the Acrobat reader you could just
use the Acrobat ActiveX control to do what you want. It's pretty easy to
interface.
Other than that, you might want to look at something like VeryPDF which has
more functionality, but it is pricey (I think like $1500).
You could also purchase the Acrobat SDK, but licensing that is on a special
royalty basis so you'd have to contact Adobe.
For merging you could take a look at iTextSharp.DLL. I use that in my C++
programs, but we had to do a wrapper it. It only has a couple of functions
useful for getting and setting the merge fields in the PDF.
Tom
"Cameron_C" <CameronC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01658043-3423-4C6B-8C8C-CACC91BD5CDA@microsoft.com...
I would like to introduce some functionality to read a PDF, populate some
of
the data fields with information I have in an SQL database, and then
display
the PDF so the User may add or change the entry fields.
The User would then print or print preview the document.
I believe that Adobe has an API available. I think it is referred to as
the
IAC interface.
Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on processing PDFs/
I don't want to create PDFs from scratch, I just want to be able to merge
and print.
Thanks again,
.......Cameron
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