Visual print design for .NET

Question

I have a project that I am working on, and I need to be able to print ID cards from the program. Are there any products at reasonable prices, so I can develop a document for printing and use it in .NET? I try to avoid using System.Drawing because of the need to do this manually, because when the company I work with needs to make changes to the ID card, it will hurt to change it later.

Answer 1

You can use Adobe Acrobat and one of the libraries for writing PDF files. This will allow you to create a document template in Adobe Acrobat, fill it in code, and print it in code. There are several open source PDF authors and some commercial ones. The differences are in the feature sets.

I have used PDFWriter in the past.

Answer 2

I did something similar using a PowerPoint document as a template. I put fields or labels in a PP document and then populate them programmatically. Obviously adding or removing fields will require code changes, but the layout of a PP document can be easily changed.

Answer 3

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