PDF generation

tomasko

Hello again, please can somebody advise me, how can i create crossplatform solution. 3 projects -> ios, android, core. In core, should be logic for pdf generator. I found at least 5 different libraries, but some working only for ios, some for android, some can work in both, but there is no support for system.drawing assemby etc...I think that this is not so extraordinary think, that developer want from xamarin. This should be basic feature for all platforms.

Clemishh

Preprocess could be the answer ;-)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ed8yd1ha(v=vs.71).aspx

CodeMonkey

Do it on the server, much easier solution. I investigated the same thing and concluded that there was no simple cross platform solution. I am now generating the PDF on the server and sending it down to the devices.

tomasko

This is nice, but in fact it is not solution;) I can create mobile webapp or create whole logic on server and viewing only results, but then i dont need xamarin for 1k USD... I still trying to find some real usecase but it looks like you have to implement everything for each device separately but in c#...

BrainloopBrainloop

have you looked at this: http://xfiniumsoft.com/xfinium-pdf-mobile/xfinium-pdf-overview.html ?

VikramVarma

Thanks krumelur, Xfinium comes with price tag. can you please suggest any open source libraries.

zamokulee

Try PDFSharp library for ...Create PDF from C#

myClickTechnologies

Is PDFSharp can be use on xamarin android?

kentucker.8475

I think syncfusion xamarin controls come with a library to create pdfs

http://www.syncfusion.com/products/xamarin

ValOkafor

@CodeMonkey please can you elaborate on how you implemented processing PDF at the server and returning to the device? I will like to implement similar setup. What library did you use at the server and what do you send to the server? xml, json?

Thanks

AfzalAli

PdfSharp is best option for PDF creation, modification and other operations.. It works well with Xamarin.Forms and have very simple and familiar methods of generating PDF.

Best way is, put this "Library" in your project, and reference it as done in "sample" project.
Git https://github.com/roceh/PdfSharp.Xamarin

NOTE : If you are looking fro RTL languages like Arabic, then I will suggest to use Native APIs to create PDF because PdfSharp doesn't support RTL completely.

NovaGreen

To create pdf you should try zetpdf. It is a great handler of pdf files...

hypnocool

i am getting error on new "Xfont" something about directive...but i dont what directive to use...no tutorial
var document = new PdfDocument();
var page = document.AddPage();
var gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
var font = new XFont("Verdana", 20);
gfx.DrawString("Test of PdfSharp on iOS", font, new XSolidBrush(XColor.FromArgb(0, 0, 0)), 10, 130);
document.Save(Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "test.pdf"));