Creating PDF Document in c#

First you should add the reference to iTextSharp.dll

Then the following method will create a PDF document and the document contains a table with the supplied data.

using iTextSharp;

using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

private void create_pdf(DataTable dt, string fname)

        {

            fname = GenarateFilename(fname, ".pdf");

            fullfilename = fname;

            Document pdfdoc = new Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A3, 10.0F, 10.0F, 10.0F, 10.0F);

            PdfWriter pw = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfdoc, new FileStream(fname, FileMode.Create));

            pdfdoc.Open();

            iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(dt.Columns.Count);

            table.TotalWidth = PageSize.A3.Width;

            table.WidthPercentage = 100;

            table.SpacingBefore = 20f;

            table.SpacingAfter = 30f;

           

            //table.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;

            table.DefaultCell.Border = iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.LEFT_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.RIGHT_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.TOP_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.BOTTOM_BORDER;

            iTextSharp.text.BaseColor CLR = new iTextSharp.text.BaseColor(105, 56, 40);

            iTextSharp.text.Font colfont = iTextSharp.text.FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA.ToString(), 9, 1, CLR);

            foreach (DataColumn dc in dt.Columns)

            {

                PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();

                cell.Border = iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.LEFT_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.RIGHT_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.TOP_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.BOTTOM_BORDER;

                cell.BorderWidth = 1f;

                Chunk chunkcols = new Chunk(dc.ToString().ToUpperInvariant(), colfont);

                cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;

                cell.BorderColor = new BaseColor(222, 189, 140);

                cell.BackgroundColor = new BaseColor(210, 165, 112);

                cell.AddElement(chunkcols);

                table.AddCell(cell);

            }

            Chunk chunkrows;

            iTextSharp.text.BaseColor color__1 = new iTextSharp.text.BaseColor(105, 56, 40);

            iTextSharp.text.Font rowfont = iTextSharp.text.FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA.ToString(), 7, color__1);

            foreach (DataRow dr in dt.Rows)

            {

                for (int M = 0; M < dt.Columns.Count; M++)

                {

                    PdfPCell cell1 = new PdfPCell();

                    cell1.Border = iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.LEFT_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.RIGHT_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.TOP_BORDER | iTextSharp.text.Rectangle.BOTTOM_BORDER;

                    //cell1.Phrase = new Phrase(dr[M].ToString());

                    chunkrows = new Chunk(dr[M].ToString(), rowfont);

                    cell1.HorizontalAlignment = (int)cellalignments(dr[M].GetType().BaseType.ToString(), "P.D.F."); //iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPCell.ALIGN_RIGHT;// Element.ALIGN_RIGHT; //Convert.ToInt32(cellalignments(dr[M].GetType().BaseType.ToString(), "P.D.F."));//Element.ALIGN_LEFT;

                    cell1.BorderColor = new BaseColor(222, 189, 140);

                    cell1.AddElement(chunkrows);

                    table.AddCell(cell1);

                    cell1 = null;

                }

            }

            pdfdoc.Add(table);

            pdfdoc.Close();

        }