ExportToPDF .NET assembly 1.2.57

You can set PDF page margins, change page orientation (portrait, landscape), customize headers and footers (change fonts, colors), add page numbers and more. ExportToPDF .NET assembly can be used as general purpose component for converting data source files to PDF documents or it can be used to create PDF reports directly from .NET applications to benefit from the great power of standard .NET databound server controls. You can add footers and headers to the rendered document, set the page size, page orientation and more PDF settings. The ExportToPDF assembly can be used from any .NET (2.0 or later) application (Windows forms, ASP.NET Web sites or command line tools).

ExportToPDF is a PDF development .NET assembly designed to help you develop PDF conversion .NET application with very minimum efforts. It takes several lines of codes to generate PDF file from a data source like CSV, Excel, text file, Access database, .NET DataTable object and complete your programming project. ExportToPDF.dll is a .NET assembly for developers to implement conversion to PDF process software solutions.

ExportToPDF provides a single API class with a bunch of very customizable properties to create, manipulate, and organize PDF documents from within your .NET applications. RustemSoft presents the file to PDF conversion package, named ExportToPDF .NET assembly that accomplishes conversion, formatting, PDF content merging, font settings, text coloring and other PDF tasks. Download Trial sample PDF Converter project that demonstrate the use of the Export to PDF class and show the results of using the class in several examples.

Major Features:

1. Convert SQL Server database query to PDF
   • ExportToPDF is helpful to export your SQL Server query result into a formatted PDF file. For this case SourceType property of RustemSoft.ExportToPDF.Export class object has to be signed as SourceTypes.DataTable. Then the SQL query result should be populated to System.Data.DataTable object. ExportToPDF just converts the DataTable object to PDF.
2. Convert Text file to PDF
   • You have a plain text file where data stored in several columns delimited by a special char. By using ExportToPDF Export class special DataSeparatorChar property you can specify the delimiter char. By default the property value is Tab (ASCII 9). So data presented in your text file will be transformed into PDF document with text, layout, and other settings you are applying for PDF conversion.
3. Convert Excel spreadsheet to PDF
   • For Excel to PDF .NET conversion task you can transform by one spreadsheet in Excel file only. You have to specify the spreadsheet name by assigning value of SourceTableSheetName property. Also you can setup XlsConvertMode property to define what a type of Excel to PDF conversion you would like to implement.
   • The property takes two conversion mode value.
   • Fast - MS Excel spreadsheets will be transformed much faster. However this way is good if you have homogeneous (similar) data for each MS Excel sheet column. If you have different data types stored in the same column please do not select this option.
   • Detailed - MS Excel spreadsheets will be transformed slowly. However this way is good if you have heterogeneous (different) data types values (numbers, date or text) stored together in some MS Excel spreadsheets field. Conversion to PDF will not lose this motley data.
   • ExcelHeaders property is useful to define if the spreadsheet’s column titles will be specified as column headers within generated PDF output file or not.
4. Add a Reference for Visual Studio .NET project
   • Suppose you are building a project using Visual Studio.NET, and you decide that you want to start consuming RustemSoft ExportToPDF .NET assembly in your .NET project. The first step that you will generally take is, you will add a reference to the ExportToPDF .NET assembly, which is residing in some directory on your PC hard drive. Visual Studio .NET will then add a new item under Solution Explorer called 'References', and it will create a row node underneath it called ExportToPDF.
   • In order to add the reference to ExportToPDF .NET assembly please follow the steps:
   • Select Project from the menu bar
   • Choose Add Reference from the drop down menu
   • Click on the Browse button
   • Browse to and choose ExportToPDFTrial.dll
   • The Reference to a .NET RustemSoft namespace is a requirement and must be added to a project before the objects in the RustemSoft namespace can be used. The VB .NET Imports statement (or C# using statement) is not a requirement and is simply a coding convenience that allows shorter names to be used. You can add the statement to your code:
   • VB .NET Imports RustemSoft.ExportToPDF
   • C# using RustemSoft.ExportToPDF;
   • C++ #using using namespace RustemSoft;
5. Setup ASP.NET web sample project
   • To work with ASP.NET Web sample application (WebPDFConverterVB or WebPDFConverterCS depending on what language you prefer) please follow the steps:
   • Open MS .NET Development Environment (Visual Studio 2005 or later) and create a new Web Site
   • In 'Location' combobox select 'File System'
   • In 'Language' combobox select language that you prefer (Visual Basic or Visual C#)
   • Go to WebPDFConverterVB or WebPDFConverterCS folder of the installed evaluation package and select all files and folders in that folder
   • Copy and paste selected files and folders into the new Web Site's directory. For example, you created the new Web Site in C:WebSite1 folder. Place the sample web application files and folders into that directory
   • You are good to run the web sample project