iTextDotNet or iTextSharp confusion

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I'm looking at iText to generate PDFs, and I'm not sure if iTextDotNet
is the same as iTextSharp. I have the latest iTextDotNet, which is for
framework 2. Are these the same product?

Also, I can see how to create a PDF to a file, but how would I send it
to the user? Not as a file, but I guess create the PDF as a stream and
send that to the user. I'm looking through the examples (VB ones) but
none of them deal with anything other than creating the PDF.
 
iText is an open source java library for creating pdf files. iTextSharp is a
C# port (rewrite). iText.net is a port to j# (using original java code).
you can use either one.

google this news group to to find how to download a pdf file. last time i
used iTextSharp, i did a lot of recoding of its source to get table layouts
to work well (i wanted nested tables to work).

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
 
iText is an open source java library for creating pdf files. iTextSharp is a
C# port (rewrite). iText.net is a port to j# (using original java code).
you can use either one.

google this news group to to find how to download a pdf file. last time i
used iTextSharp, i did a lot of recoding of its source to get table layouts
to work well (i wanted nested tables to work).

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
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Thanks. I think the idea is to avoid creating a physical file on the
server and just sending the PDF back as a stream. I'll dig around some
more.
 
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