Converting Multipage TIFF image to PDF

I thought I share this with you because I spent some time before finding the solution. What I wanted to do is to simply convert a multipage TIFF image to a PDF file. I wanted this for an ASP.NET project.

TallPDF does this but you have to pay a lot for a simple task (TallPDF does other things too though!). After some searching came to the conclusion that PDF Creation Libraries are my best option here. There are a few for .NET including iTextSharp, PDFsharp and PDF Clown. I used iTextSharp because it has a sample that was showing how to create a PDF file from a multipage TIFF image (exactly what I wanted).

Here is the code that does the conversion:

// creation of the document with a certain size and certain margins
iTextSharp.text.Document document = new iTextSharp.text.Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4, 0, 0, 0, 0);

// creation of the different writers
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter writer = iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new System.IO.FileStream(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/result.pdf"), System.IO.FileMode.Create));

// load the tiff image and count the total pages
System.Drawing.Bitmap bm = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/source.tif"));
int total = bm.GetFrameCount(System.Drawing.Imaging.FrameDimension.Page);

document.Open();
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
for (int k = 0; k < total; ++k)
{
	bm.SelectActiveFrame(System.Drawing.Imaging.FrameDimension.Page, k);
	iTextSharp.text.Image img = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(bm, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
	// scale the image to fit in the page
	img.ScalePercent(72f / img.DpiX * 100);
	img.SetAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
	cb.AddImage(img);
	document.NewPage();
}
document.Close();

As you can see it is very simple and straightforward.