You can use this library for royalty-free PDF generation in C#, .NET, VB, C  , ASP.NET and ASP.

PDFDoc Scout is an ActiveX library for PDF format documents generation from Visual Basic, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#, ASP and ASP.NET.

Here are some key features of "PDFDoc Scout":

· Full set of methods and properties to add and manage text, Unicode text, images, annotations, outlines, controls (for "acroforms") and javascript actions;
· Fonts embedding (TTF, TTC) including Unicode text support;
· Built-in EMF to PDF conversion engine including support for EMF images produced by virtual EMF printers;
· 128 and 40 bits security options, password protection options;
· hDC emulation support so existing WinGDI code can be re-directed to produce reports in PDF format;
· Ability to handle produced PDF document in memory without need for temporary files and provide on-the-fly generation directly into browser (with ASP and ASP.NET);
· One pass writing" mode support (PDF is streamed directly to the file without storing in memory) for hi-speed large PDF documents production;
· Barcode drawing support;
· Jpeg, Flate (BMP), CCITT 3, CCITT 3 (2D), CCITT 4 image compression modes support;
· Support for PNG, TIFF, GIF images support (via additional free addon)

Limitations:

· Watermark on generated PDF documents

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· minor bug-fixes
· updated installer
· new source code samples included