Best way to create/fill-in printed forms and pdfs?

Question

We have a C# application that must print complex forms. Things like multi-page government compliance forms that must be in a specific format. We can get PDF copies of these fo

Answer 1

Partial answer to your question is that you should explore "ItextSharp" library which is an open source library and is useful in creating PDF files.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/

Answer 2

You may try Docotic.Pdf Library. This library allows to fill in forms in existing documents, import and export FDF data, as well modify existing documents and create forms from scratch.

Several samples:

How to fill in existing forms

How to import FDF to PDF document

How to create text fields

Docotic.Pdf comes with commercial and free licenses.