My company is looking for a way to automatically convert its sales reports (normally HTML) to PDF files, and send it to a seperate drive on the network (acts as an archive). How would I accomplish this?
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The basic situation is that I am programming our new online sales system in ASP. The last page of the application is a report which will go to our engineering department which covers all of the components, accessories, and options the user has picked for his/her product. We want this page to be viewable on the web, archiveable as pdf, and printable (mostly just stay as HTML).
I hope this gives you a better understanding of what we're looking for. THanks!
Hi flow79,
You can usefor that porpouse ABCpdf 4.0 or ABCpdf .NET componets. they permit you to dynamically create Adobe PDF documents on the fly.
Here you have more information about them
http://www.websupergoo.com
There is a live demostration about
http://64.39.14.230/abcpdf
Hope this help
Best Regards
Kar10s
Karl10s' suggestion is certainly an option. You could create the PDF on the fly and use this for display/storage/print. However, if you want to take the HTML as basis, and just convert it to PDF, I guess your best option is the WebGrabber. I'ts a COM object, so you can use it directly from your ASP site. Check out the description on the activePDF web site and see if this makes sense to you.
Hi,
Yes it is other option. With ABCpdf, you can do the same. Have you try the live demo? http://64.39.14.230/abcpdf
see where say:
Add Web Page - draw a web page.
and then
Show PDF - show the PDF in a browser window.
So you could put a botton on your asp page or use a event for create the pdf file from the HTML page.
Regards
Kar10s
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by: khkremerPosted on 2004-06-15 at 12:14:42ID: 11318519
Define "automatically". Depending on your definition, you may be able to use Adobe Acrobat (or not). Acrobat is not licensed for unattended/server use. If you have somebody sit at the console and start the process, you are probably OK.
Acrobat has a "HTML->PDF" converter built in, and you can utilize and automate it via JavaScript (with the doc.getURL() call).
If you need to do this without human intervention, you need to look to 3rd party tools. They go from free to pretty expensive :-) At the free end, you'll find e.g. HTMLDOC (http://www.easysw.com/htm