how to format PDF Invoice ?

Yes, it has.  and it has a long list of using
here is its list:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Orders;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Products;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Measures;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Directory;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Tax;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Payment;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Shipping;
using NopSolutions.NopCommerce.BusinessLogic.Localization;

Can you paste the exact Logo code (those 3 lines) you have?

Holliday, I don't guess it.  I just use the auto fill with Uri popup and the curly line is gone away.  There picture is there now.
With your programming, may I know why is that? it does not like my typing.

Since it works, then I moved the code back to exactly where I put before and build solution with out any errors. The picture is there now.

I really don't get it.

doc.Open();
Image gif = Image.getInstance(new Uri("http://www.something.com/images/logo.gif"));
doc.Add(gif);

Thank you so much for your help and patience.
Tony

Hi, I thought I am ok, but I come to other thing with Company Name.
I follow andrei's code and I can not get the copany name.  all I have is "pdfinvoice.company".  it looks like the code display itself in the form and does not pul the company information.
Would you plz help me with it? Thanks

double check your localization strings to make sure that string is there and has a value.

Holliday, a part of pdfhelp has these code:

            Cell billingAddressCell = new Cell();
            billingAddressCell.Add(new Paragraph(" "));
            billingAddressCell.Add(new Paragraph(LocalizationManager.GetLocaleResourceString("PDFInvoice.BillingInformation", LanguageID)));
            if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(order.BillingCompany))
                billingAddressCell.Add(new Paragraph("    " + String.Format(LocalizationManager.GetLocaleResourceString("PDFInvoice.Company", LanguageID), order.BillingCompany)));
            billingAddressCell.Add(new Paragraph("    " + String.Format(LocalizationManager.GetLocaleResourceString("PDFInvoice.Name", LanguageID), order.BillingFullName)));

I also look into localization folder and can not figure out what will be related to.

Tony

It looks like many one interested in this topic.  Hope you have a little bit of your time to help with this.

anthny wrote:

Hi,

First point regarding images. You don't need to use the absolute image url to add an image you can use:

doc.Add(Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("~/content/images/logo.jpg")));

Secondly, I have an improved templating solution that I hope to add to nopCommerce in the next month or so. This will give you much more control over both email message templates and PDFs.

But to help you out in the meantime, iTextSharp has a HTMLWorker object that does an okay job of converting a html document into a PDF so things like tables are quite easy to do.

The code below (written for another application) passes a string result (contains the html to convert) to the HTMLWorker.Parse method. This creates a number of elements to be added to the PDF document.

 string result = _templateService.RenderTemplate("TestEmail.htm", objs);

            StyleSheet stylesheet = new StyleSheet();
            stylesheet.LoadTagStyle("body", "color", "darkblue");
            stylesheet.LoadTagStyle("body", "size", "10px");

            var html = HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(result), stylesheet);

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms);
                doc.Open();
                doc.Add(Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("~/content/images/logo.jpg")));
                doc.Add(new Paragraph());
                foreach (var e in html) {
                    doc.Add((IElement)e);
                }
                doc.Close();

Hope this helps some people in the meantime.

Ben