Rendering a PDF in angular that works with mobile browsers using ng2-pdf-viewer

In several applications I worked on, we used iframe to display PDFs. The PDF displays fine on desktop browsers. However, on a mobile browser such as Safari on iPhone and iPAD, only the first page shows up. Many people have run into the same issue, as discussed in this stackoverflow post and also on the apple communities page.

Dynamically adjust font size of text to fit into a PDF text field using iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core.

In one of the asp.net core projects I worked on, I used iTextSharp.LGPLv2.Core to programmatically fill out a PDF form. Sometimes, we have a string that is too long to fit within the rectangle area of the text field. After a bit of googling, I found and adopted the solution in this StackOverFlow to solve this problem by dynamically compute the appropriate font size I can use so that the value can fit within the field.

Fill out a PDF form using iTextSharp for .NET core.

iTextSharp is a popular library for working with PDF files. The  unofficial port of the v4.16 is available for .NET core. In this post, I show examples of using the library to programmatically read and fill out a PDF form.

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