pdf-generation

"There’s usually more than one way to create PDF documents that look like identical twins when opened in a PDF viewer. And even if you create two identical PDF documents using the exact same code, there will be small differences between the two resulting files. That’s inherent to the PDF format." i read this paragraph in "Itext in action-second edition".(p 17).Can anyone please explain me what kind of differences the author's talking about.and reason why pdf format has this defect if i may say. Files that are created on a different moment, have a different value for the CreationDate and they

I have a piece of HTML stored in a database as: <ul> <li>Pretend you're talking to a busy colleague and have to sum up your entire question in one sentence: what details can you include that will help someone identify and solve your problem?</li> <li>Spelling, grammar and punctuation are important! Remember, this is the first part of your question others will see - you want to make a good impression. If you're not comfortable writing in English, ask a friend to proof-read it for you. </li> <li>If you're having trouble summarizing the problem, write the title last - sometimes writing the rest

tl;dr : Basically I'm just wondering what is the best/easiest way to design a PDF document? Is it remotely legit to actually design a whole PDF document with iTextSharp with code(i.e not loading external files)? I want the final result to look similar to a webpage with various colours, borders, images and everything. Or do you have to rely on other documents like .doc, .html files to achieve a good design? Originally I thought that I would use HTML markup to generate a PDF, however seeing how bad the support seems to be when it comes to styling/CSS so am I rethinking the whole situation. Which

I have a quite complicated HTML/CSS layout which I would like to convert to PDF on my server. I already have tryed DOMPDF, unfortunately it did not convert the HTML with correct layout. I have considered HTMLDOC but I have heard that it ignores CSS to a large extent, so I suppose the layout would break apart with that tool too. My question therefor is - are there any online demos for other tools (like wkhtmltopdf i.e.) that I could use to verify how my HTML is converted? Before spending the rest of my life installing & testing one by one? Unfortunately, I can't change the HTML layout to fit

I want to export gridview to pdf by using the itextsharp library. The problem is that some turkish characters such as İ,ı,Ş,ş etc... are missing in the pdf document. The code used to export the pdf is: protected void LinkButtonPdf_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=FileName.pdf"); Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache); System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter(); System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite =

I am using the following pseudocode to generate a PDF document: CGContextRef context = CGPDFContextCreateWithURL(url, &rect, NULL); for (int i = 1; i <= N; i++) { NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init]; CGContextBeginPage(context, &mediaBox); // drawing code CGContextEndPage(context); [pool release]; } CGContextRelease(context); It works very well with small documents ( N < 100 pages), but it uses too much memory and crashes if the document has more than about 400 pages (it received two memory warnings before crashing.) I have made sure there were no leaks using Instruments