Programming & Scripting

I wanted to be able to format numbers to include commas every 3 numbers and then fix them to a certain number of decimals. There are a few different format functions out there and also JQuery plugins, but couldn't seem to find one that did exactly what I wanted, so ended up writing my own.

Here's the code for anyone else looking for something that will format numbers to include commas using JQuery:-

Code:

(function ($) {
    $.fn.formatNumber = function (seperator, every,

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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. ...

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, ...