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Combine these 2 pieces of code

I'm following these 2 examples and it works. However, I dont want to save the PDF file to c drive. I just want to open it and not save it on a drive. How can I remove it?

http://www.dotnetspark.com/kb/654-simple-way-to-create-pdf-document-using.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/922564/trying-to-open-up-pdf-after-creating-it-with-itextsharp-but-cant-get-it-to-wor

This is what I have;

First section that writes to C drive:

 Document doc = new Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.LETTER, 10, 10, 42, 35);

                PdfWriter wri = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream("c:\\Test11.pdf", FileMode.Create));
                //Open Document to write
                doc.Open();
                //Write some content
                Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph("This is my first line using Paragraph.");
                Phrase pharse = new Phrase("This is my second line using Pharse.");
                Chunk chunk = new Chunk(" This is my third line using Chunk.");
                // Now add the above created text using different class object to our pdf document
                doc.Add(paragraph);
                doc.Add(pharse);
                doc.Add(chunk);
            
            doc.Close();

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Second section that opens it.

   string remoteFileName = "Test11.pdf";
                string filePath = "c:\\Test11.pdf";
            if (!File.Exists(filePath))
                throw new FileNotFoundException(
                      string.Format("Final PDF file '{0}' was not found on disk.",
                                     filePath));
            var fi = new FileInfo(filePath);
            Response.Clear();
            Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",
                          String.Format("attachment; filename=\"{0}\"",
                                         remoteFileName));
            Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", fi.Length.ToString());
            Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
            Response.WriteFile(fi.FullName);
            Response.End();

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themrrobert

he gave a perfect answer damn i was too late, nice one :)

Camillia

ASKER

So what happens to these line of code and that file name? remove them?

string remoteFileName = "Test11.pdf";
string filePath = "c:\\Test11.pdf";
if (!File.Exists(filePath))
throw new FileNotFoundException(
string.Format("Final PDF file '{0}' was not found on disk.",
filePath));
var fi = new FileInfo(filePath);

Camillia

ASKER

Closed it too fast. I have this code now, but it opens in the same browser window ...instead of another window. I lose my website when it opens in the same browser window...how can i fix it?

  Document doc = new Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.LETTER, 10, 10, 42, 35);

                MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
                PdfWriter wri = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms); 
                //Open Document to write
                doc.Open();
                //Write some content
                Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph("<h1>Patient Referral Letter - " + patientName + "</h1>");
                Phrase pharse = new Phrase("This is my second line using Pharse.");
                Chunk chunk = new Chunk(" This is my third line using Chunk.");
                // Now add the above created text using different class object to our pdf document
                doc.Add(paragraph);
                doc.Add(pharse);
                doc.Add(chunk);
            
                doc.Close();

         
            Response.BinaryWrite(ms.ToArray()); 
            Response.End();

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kaufmed

How does a user trigger this page? By clicking a button? By clicking a link? You cannot trigger a new browser window from the server; this has to be requested by the client. If you were using a link, then you could use the target attribute to specify a new window should open. A button I think would need Javascript code.

Camillia

ASKER

Did it like this.
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment");
Response.BinaryWrite(ms.ToArray());

Response.End();