Create a new PDF Document in Asp.net

In our projects requirement may  araise to generate pdf  reports.

PDF reports can be easily generated with out use of any crystal reports using a 3rd party library named

"ITEXTSHARP"

It can be downloaded in this website ITEXTSHARP

Now let us see a example how can we create a simple pdf document on button click (code is written in c#)

1. First step is to  download the attachment unzip it and you can find file  itextsharp.dll in it.
2. Now  go to visualstudio and create a new website and  drag and drop a button  on  to the page.
3. Now add the itextsharp.dll reference to the project by clicking on reference.
4. Now add the  namespaces to the .cs  file (see the code for the namespaces).
5. Now double click on button  to get the event handler.

Code is as follows

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

using iTextSharp.text.html;

public partial class registering_page : System.Web.UI.Page

{

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

     

      

    }

  protected void img_btn_pdf_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)

    {

        try

        {

            // Creates a PDF document

            bool LandScape = true;

            Document document = null;

            if (LandScape == true)

            {

                // Sets the document to A4 size and rotates it so that the     orientation of the page is Landscape.

                document = new Document(PageSize.A4.Rotate(), 0, 0, 15, 5);

            }

            else

            {

                document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 0, 0, 15, 5);

            }

            // Gets the instance of the document created and writes it to the output stream of the Response object.

            PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, Response.OutputStream);

            // Creates a footer for the PDF document.

            HeaderFooter pdfFooter = new HeaderFooter(new Phrase(), true);

            pdfFooter.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;

            pdfFooter.Border = iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.NO_BORDER;

            // Sets the document footer to pdfFooter.

            document.Footer = pdfFooter;

            // Opens the document.

            document.Open();

            // Adds the mainTable to the document.

            document.Add(getContent());

            document.NewPage();

            document.Close();

            string filename = "introduction" + ".pdf";

            string attachment = "attachment; filename=" + filename;

            Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

            Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", attachment);

            Response.End();

}

Catch

{

//handle your catch block

}

}

/// <summary>

    /// Gets the content in to the  PDF document.

    /// </summary>

    /// <returns></returns>

    private PdfPTable getContent());

    {

        float HeaderTextSize = 10;

        float ReportNameSize = 10;

        float ReportTextSize = 8;

        float ApplicationNameSize = 8;

        // Creates a PdfPTable with column count of the table equal to no of columns of the gridview or gridview datasource.

        iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable mainTable = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable(2);

        // Sets the first 4 rows of the table as the header rows which will be repeated in all the pages.

        mainTable.HeaderRows = 6;

        // Creates a PdfPTable with 2 columns to hold the header in the exported PDF.

        iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable headerTable = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable(3);

        // Creates a phrase to hold the application name at the left hand side of the header.

        Phrase phApplicationName = new Phrase("Empid", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ApplicationNameSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        // Creates a PdfPCell which accepts a phrase as a parameter.

        PdfPCell clApplicationName = new PdfPCell(phApplicationName);

        // Sets the border of the cell to zero.

        clApplicationName.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        // Sets the Horizontal Alignment of the PdfPCell to left.

        clApplicationName.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

        // Creates a phrase to show the current date at the right hand side of the header.

        Phrase phDate = new Phrase("Date", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ApplicationNameSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        // Creates a PdfPCell which accepts the date phrase as a parameter.

        PdfPCell clDate = new PdfPCell(phDate);

        // Sets the Horizontal Alignment of the PdfPCell to right.

        clDate.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_RIGHT;

        // Sets the border of the cell to zero.

        clDate.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        Phrase pPname = new Phrase("Name", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ApplicationNameSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        // Creates a PdfPCell which accepts the date phrase as a parameter.

        PdfPCell cpPname = new PdfPCell(pPname);

        // Sets the Horizontal Alignment of the PdfPCell to right.

        cpPname.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;

        // Sets the border of the cell to zero.

        cpPname.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        // Adds the cell which holds the application name to the headerTable.

        headerTable.AddCell(clApplicationName);

        headerTable.AddCell(cpPname);

        // Adds the cell which holds the date to the headerTable.

        headerTable.AddCell(clDate);

        // Sets the border of the headerTable to zero.

        headerTable.DefaultCell.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        // Creates a PdfPCell that accepts the headerTable as a parameter and then adds that cell to the main PdfPTable.

        PdfPCell cellHeader = new PdfPCell(headerTable);

        cellHeader.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        // Sets the column span of the header cell to noOfColumns.

        cellHeader.Colspan = 3;

        // Adds the above header cell to the table.

        mainTable.AddCell(cellHeader);

        // Creates a phrase which holds the file name.

        Phrase phHeader = new Phrase("Leave Request", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ReportNameSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.BOLD));

        PdfPCell clHeader = new PdfPCell(phHeader);

        clHeader.Colspan = 3;

        clHeader.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        clHeader.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;

        mainTable.AddCell(clHeader);

        // Creates a phrase for a new line.

        Phrase phSpace = new Phrase("\n");

        PdfPCell clSpace = new PdfPCell(phSpace);

        clSpace.Border = PdfPCell.NO_BORDER;

        clSpace.Colspan = 3;

        mainTable.AddCell(clSpace);

        // Sets the gridview column names as table headers.

        mainTable.CompleteRow();

        // Reads the gridview rows and adds them to the mainTable

        Phrase mph = new Phrase("Leave Type", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ReportTextSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        mainTable.AddCell(mph);

        mainTable.CompleteRow();

        Phrase mph = new Phrase("Leave Type", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ReportTextSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        mainTable.AddCell(mph);

        mainTable.CompleteRow();

  Phrase mph = new Phrase("Start date", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ReportTextSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        mainTable.AddCell(mph);

        mainTable.CompleteRow();

  Phrase mph = new Phrase("End date", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ReportTextSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        mainTable.AddCell(mph);

        mainTable.CompleteRow();

  Phrase mph = new Phrase("Reason", FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", ReportTextSize, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL));

        mainTable.AddCell(mph);

        mainTable.CompleteRow();

return mainTable;

}

}

This is how we can generate  pdf documents.

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