Hi everyone, first time here on the forums, though I've been using MigraDoc for probably around a year now as a part of my job to automate PDF file generation from a system I'm working on. As much as I think MigraDoc is a great library for creating PDFs, I've been finding it to be getting quite limiting recently due to the fact that all the design work has to be done in .NET code, so this weekend I started working on a library to design files for MigraDoc in XML instead.
There's still loads that hasn't been done yet, but the fundamentals for creating quite simple PDFs are in place and I thought you might find it interesting/useful for your own projects.
<Document ImagePath="{Model.ImagePath}">
<Style Target="Paragraph">
<Setters Font.Name="Calibri" SpaceBefore="2mm" SpaceAfter="2mm"/>
</Style>
<Style Target="Paragraph" Name="Title">
<Setters Font.Size="20" Font.Bold="true" Alignment="Center"/>
</Style>
<Style Target="Paragraph" Name="Address">
<Setters SpaceBefore="0" SpaceAfter="0"/>
</Style>
<Section PageSetup.DifferentFirstPageHeaderFooter="true"
PageSetup.BottomMargin="3.5cm">
<Header IsPrimary="true" IsFirstPage="true">
<p Alignment="Right">
<Text>Page </Text><PageField/><Text> of </Text><NumPagesField/>
</p>
</Header>
<Footer IsFirstPage="true">
<Table>
<Style Target="Row">
<Setters Alignment="Center"/>
</Style>
<Style Target="Paragraph">
<Setters SpaceBefore="0" SpaceAfter="0"/>
</Style>
<Column Width="15cm"/>
<Row>
<Cell Index="0">
<p><Image Name="Generic Bank Logo.jpeg" Width="4cm"></Image></p>
</Cell>
</Row>
<Row C0="For all your non-specific banking needs"/>
</Table>
</Footer>
<p Style="Title">{Model.AccountHolder}'s Monthly Statement</p>
<p Style="Address">{Model.Address.Line1}</p>
<p Style="Address">{Model.Address.Town}</p>
<p Style="Address">{Model.Address.County}</p>
<p Style="Address">{Model.Address.Country}</p>
<p Style="Address" SpaceAfter="1cm">{Model.Address.Postcode}</p>
<If Var="Model.AccountBalance" Criteria="<0">
<p Font.Color="Red" Font.Bold="true">Your account is currently overdrawn, you need to either earn more money, or spend less</p>
</If>
<p>Your monthly transactions</p>
<Table Borders.Color="Gray">
<Column Width="5cm"/>
<Column Width="7cm"/>
<Column Width="3cm"/>
<Row Heading="true" Font.Bold="true" C0="Date" C1="Description" C2="Price"/>
<ForEach Var="tx" In="Model.Transactions">
<Row Font.Color="{tx.Colour}" C0="{tx.Date#dd MMM yyyy}" C1="{tx.Name}" C2="{tx.Value#C}"/>
</ForEach>
</Table>
</Section>
</Document>
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if only because I'd love to know that other people are getting use out of it too. The problem this is aiming to solve for me is that I've found the documents I produce for customers often seem to be running off pretty much the exact same data, but with each of them having different requests of how they want things laid out. With the way I'm using migradoc at the moment it means either lots of conditional logic or else customer-specific plugins just for document layout changes, neither of which are at all ideal. Storing the layout outside of my assembly along with information of how data should be populated into it means I just need to change one xml file.