Quick start tutorial: generating PDF document in ASP.NET with Bytescout.PDF (on ASP.NET web-server)

Bytescout.PDF library for .NET

For HTML2PDF and XML2PDF solution check our PDFDoc Scout ActiveX library instead

How to create PDF document using Bytescout.PDF library in ASP.NET environment
"Hello, World!" example

You can download the source code of this example here: bytescoutpdf_asp_net.zip

This page contains step by step tutorial how to create PDF document in ASP.NET using Bytescout.PDF library.

IMPORTANT NOTE: To use Bytescout.PDF library on web-server you have to have additional "Web License"

Bytescout.PDF library is capable of generating of in-memory PDF files so file needn't to be stored as a file on hard drive and can be streamed right into the browser window.

There is a special "GenerateInMemoryFile" property for such purposes. Set this property to TRUE and the library will generate and keep your PDF as in-memory stream without using of any temporary files.

1) Install Bytescout.PDF library on your computer and run Visual Studio.NET

2) Go to File menu and select New Project:

Select ASP.NET Web Application project type and click OK

3) Visual Studio.NET will create new empty ASP.NET project. Double-click on the empty space of the form:

This will open source code editor window on procedure handling Page_Load event. We will place our code for PDF PDF animation generation into this procedure:

Page load handler procedure generated by ASP.NET IDE

4) Use the following code for procedure (you can simply copy and paste this code from this page into ASP.NET source code editor window):

// Create main PDF Doc Engine
PDFDocEngine engine = new PDFDocEngine("", "");

// Add new document
Document document = engine.AddDocument();

// Append new page to the document
Bytescout.PDF.Page page = document.AddPage(PageSizeType.A3, PageOrientationType.LandScape);

// Create new drawing
Drawing drawing = page.AddDrawing();

// Add standard font
uint font = document.AddFontStandard(StandardFontType.Courier, FontEncodingType.WinAnsi);

// Set Active Font
drawing.SetActiveFont(font, 50, false, false);

// Draw Text
drawing.PlaceText(100, 100, 0, "Hello World!");

// Closing drawing on the page
drawing.Close();

// clear http output
Response.Clear();
// set the content type to PDF
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
// add content type header
Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/pdf");
// set the content disposition
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=HelloWorld.pdf");
// write the buffer with pdf file to the output
document.Save(Response.OutputStream);

Response.End();

5) Now run ASP.NET project using Debug | Start command:

Visual Studio.NET will run ASP.NET project on web-server and you will see Internet Explorer window with generated PDF document:

PDF document generated by ASP.NET application

You can download the source code of this example here: bytescoutpdf_asp_net.zip

For HTML2PDF and XML2PDF solution check our PDFDoc Scout ActiveX library instead

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