Is there any way to generate PDF files from classic ASP? I have a bunch of user-entered data that needs to be turned into a PDF that the user can download. How can I do this? OpenOffice allows exporting documents to PDF, so could this somehow be leveraged?
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I played around a bit with this (Persits ASPPDF): http://www.asppdf.com/
Diodeus
2009-01-13 21:43:58
That is what we use, and it seems to do pretty much anything we need.
Kevin
2009-01-13 21:44:57
This looks promising, but less costly(aka. gratis) options are preferred.
cdeszaq
2009-01-13 21:55:33
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Check out this site: http://www.aspxnet.it/public/default.asp It's in Italian, but the source is available for download. It's an ASP port of fpdf.
Hope that helps.
volatilsis
2009-01-13 21:46:43
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Maybe running an external application that could be using CrystalReports... and you just pass it as an xml?
That's how i would do it... (lazy mode)
Ironicnet
2009-01-13 21:47:41
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See a full list of PDF components here: http://www.aspin.com/home/components/document/pdf Many of them are free.
It is also possible to use XSLT to output PDF but I am not sure if this is supported by the Microsoft XML Parser. I remember there were something stopping me when I tried to do this 3-4 years ago. Might be worth checking out know depending out the type of data you have as source.
However if these are static files or a one time job consider using a PDF converter on your computer and just upload the files to the server. There are heaps of tools for this, including Adobe Acrobat.
Espen
2009-01-14 16:44:06