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This is a continuation of my blogs regarding generating PDF documents using iTextSharp.

This one really had me stumped for a while and thanks to a couple of members on here, I was able to eventually solve the problem. I read several posts and threads about this issue, but none were solving my problem.

I was using iTextSharp to generate a number of PDF documents to use in a back office ordering system. The main documents being a PDF invoice and delivery / packing note. ...

Lately, I've been doing a lot of work with the ASP.NET MVC framework. One of the greatest attributes of MVC over Web Forms is its extensibility. Authorization is important to any application and being able to customize it to meet your project's needs is equally important.

In the ASP.NET MVC framework, developers can use attributes to control things like validation and authorization. To have custom authorization in your MVC project, start off by inheriting from the AuthorizeAttribute ...

Another iTextSharp blog post, this time on setting the initial zoom for a document.

Couldn't find an exact example of how to do this, but managed to cobble this together from a variety of code snippets I found.

You can set the initial zoom of a document using iTextSharp by adding a SetOpenAction method to the PdfWriter object. I found I could only add this once the document had been opened using doc.Open(), otherwise I got an "Object reference" error. This I presumed ...

This one had me struggling for a while, so I thought I'd post a blog about it to try and help others.

What I was trying to do was create a PDF including header and footer sections to print documents onto a headed paper style.

Using iTextSharp V5.0.2.0 DLL in the bin folder you can create PDFs on the fly. My previous blog explained how to generate a simple PDF. Next I wanted to generate something a bit more complicated.

It seems previous versions of iTextSharp ...

As part of a project I'm working on, I have the need to generate PDF documents "on the fly" and then render them back to the browser.

I was already aware of a dll module that provided this functionality, available at iTextSharp | Get iTextSharp at SourceForge.net so I thought I'd post a quick blog about how to get it working.

Firstly, you need to place the .dll file in the bin directory of your application / website.

I then created a new .aspx page, ...