Building your own Tools
I am currently working on a project for work where I need to build a web based application that will allow users to enter data that will then be used to generate a PDF form. I found a great open source library called iTextSharp that is able to do exactly what I want to do. I was in need of a way to see the editable fields inside of a PDF file and I looked around to see if there was such as tool that I could download and use for this purpose. After a few minutes of looking around, I thought ‘Why not just build this yourself?’. So I fired up Visual Studio 2010 and built a really simple Windows Forms application that did what I wanted. The source code for the utility can be found here.
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