PDFs in .NET - iTextSharp
We're managing our team-member experience profiles online in one application, and on Word with our DMS. As you can imagine, keeping these things in sync has been a pain in the butt for years, but it's been low on my list until recently. Thanks for a tip from Sean McCormack, I checked out iTextSharp, a PDF generation API for .NET that's mature & stable (GNU license) (Sean was telling me nText, which may be a PDF generator, or it may just be a datatype in SQL update: he did mention it had been 2 years since he saw it and he may be wrong, but he knew it was a port from Java's iText). [Project Home]
I had no trouble learning how to use the API. It's very intuitive, and getting at least this marketing bit under control will free up time & eliminate bottlenecks & inconsistencies, which is always cool. Before I started throwing these things together though, I needed a couple good examples to work from...
Typos
So I sent a quick email request to one of our Marketing people, but not before proofreading... which is good, because had I not proofread what I hoped to send (“I'd like to get my hands on a few different profiles...”) , she would have received this: “I'd like to get my nads on a few different profiles”.
NADS!.. I don't know where my head is sometimes, but it seems there's always something funny there.
Gotta share: What do you call 2 men with no arms & no legs in the ocean???
Print | posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:49 PM