[thelist] Format/Print server-side files - Help?

[Scott Dexter]

> If anyone has any better suggestions, please let me know. Our current 
> brainstorming list includes .pdf (no experience with creating 
> them on the 
> fly) and using the Word object model (same problem plus we 
> don't really 
> know if this can be accesses through VBScript).

creating pdf on the fly can be done, and the Acrobat software does have
ActiveX hooks so you can get at them from ASP. The other alternative is to
create postscript on the fly, but that requires a steady hand and some
serious coding (not vbScript).

Word does integrate with ASP in the sense that you can open a word doc
through ActiveX on the server, create the doc, save it off, and then provide
the link to it in HTML.

Not that I've actually gone through the process, but all the tools are
there....

sgd
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