[thelist] PDF Creation using ASP

Max Schwanekamp lists at neptunewebworks.com
Thu Oct 26 11:10:30 CDT 2006


> From: Julian Rickards [mailto:julian.rickards at gmail.com] 
> >From reading PHP Programming (O'Reilly), I know that PDFs may be 
> >created
> using PHP (may require a library be installed). Is a similar 
> option available for ASP? In other words, can I create a web 
> form that will generate a PDF for the client to download?

Yes, but AFAIK the difference is that all ASP/.NET options are commercial,
though generally not prohibitively expensive.  GIYF...
http://www.google.com/search?q=asp+pdf

Depending on your needs, if you have PHP available (even as CGI), you might
consider using a php script to generate the PDF.  FPDF.org is a good option
that can be incorporated into a simple procedural script.  I did that on a
production site for a few years -- I had the asp-generated form post to a
php script which generated the pdf file based on the POST data, saved it to
a cache, and then used Response.Redirect() to send the client to the pdf
file.

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Max Schwanekamp
NeptuneWebworks.com
 






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