Customizing PDF reports

Hi all,
How can I customize the PDF reports generated from "Print..." contextual menu? It looks like there's no template on the disk.
Thank you,
Andrei

Thank you Phanikanth,
I don't want something very exotic, for the beginning just to eliminate some sections and fields. Editing them in a PDF editor is not an option since there's a quite large number of objects in the same report.
Let me rephrase: Is there a way to eliminate sections from the PDF reports before being generated? Where is the generation logic kept? In a Java class or it's parsing a template from somewhere?
Thank you,
Andrei Daneasa

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Thank you for your answer !
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Hi my name is vishal
For past 10 days i have been breaking my head on how to make column headers in table appear bold while datas in table appear regular from c# windows forms with sql server2008 using iTextSharp.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
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"DialyzerID".
However the problem i am facing is after execution and opening of document is my
column headers in table in pdf report from
c# and datas in it all appear in bold.
I have browsed through net regarding to solve this problem but with no success.
What i want is my pdf report from c# should be similar to following format which i was able to accomplish in vb6,adodb with MS access using iTextSharp.:
Given below is report which i have achieved from vb6,adodb with MS access using iTextSharp
I know that there has to be another way to solve my problem.I have browsed many articles in net regarding exporting sql datas to above format but with no success!
Is there is any another way to solve to my problem on exporting sql datas from c# windows forms using iTextSharp to above format given in the picture/image above?!
If so Then Can anyone tell me what modifications must i do in my c# code given above so that my pdf report from c# windows forms using iTextSharp will look similar to image/picture(pdf report) which i was able to accomplish from
vb6,adodb with ms access using iTextSharp?
I have approached Sound Forge.Net for help but with no success.
I hope anyone/someone truly understands what i am trying to ask!
I know i have to do lot of modifications in my c# code to achieve this level of perfection but i dont know how to do it.
Can anyone help me please! Any help/guidance in solving this problem would be greatly appreciated.
I hope i get a reply in terms of solving this problem.
vishal

Hi,
About iTextSharp component issue , I think this case is off-topic in here.
I suggest you consulting to compenent provider.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/
Regards,
Marvin
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