converting txt to pdf

[middletree]

A site I am building will have a text link which will bring up this page in
a new browser:
http://www.crgm06.com/aval.txt

It's a list of available loads (for a company that finds trucks and drivers
for loads to be delivered). It gets updated constantly, I think every
fifteen minutes or so. The site I am building is going to have a link which
will bring up the aforementioned txt page, but I am being asked to convert
it to PDF before displaying it.

The page above is not on the same domain or even the same company as the
site I am building. It's being fed from a Unix database, but I will have no
access to that db. My site is going to be classic ASP on Windows 20000 or
2003 servers. I will have access to either Access or SQL Server db if I need
them. However, I have no reason to think I will need a db for any other
parts of the site.

I don't think this part that I am asking about will ned a db either, but am
trying to provide all the info in my post that I can.

My question is, is there a way to take some data in a text file, and convert
it to PDF on the fly and displaying that for the user?

I went to http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2207 but didn't see that any of
the applications/components there would help any.

[Bullschmidt]

Hopefully these will give you some ideas:

Using Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object to Get Data From Other Web Pages by
Richard Lowe - 11/1/2000
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml
"Retrieve data from other web sites."

How do I read the contents of a remote web page? - 5/2/2001
http://www.aspfaq.com/faq/faqShow.asp?fid=119

How do I generate PDF files from ASP? - 11/1/2001
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2207

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Designer
http://www.Bullschmidt.com
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[middletree]

I had already been through the 2207 article, but I think the other two will
be helpful. Thanks very much.
"Bullschmidt" <pa**@bullschmidt.com-nospam> wrote in message
news:uM**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hopefully these will give you some ideas:

Using Microsoft's XMLHTTP Object to Get Data From Other Web Pages by
Richard Lowe - 11/1/2000
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/110100-1.shtml
"Retrieve data from other web sites."

How do I read the contents of a remote web page? - 5/2/2001
http://www.aspfaq.com/faq/faqShow.asp?fid=119

How do I generate PDF files from ASP? - 11/1/2001
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2207

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Designer
http://www.Bullschmidt.com
ASP Designer Tips, ASP Web Database Demo, Free ASP Bar Chart Tool...
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[ChrisRath]

>he site I am building is going to have a link which

will bring up the aforementioned txt page, but I am being asked to convert
it to PDF before displaying it.

I've written ASP to output PDF without the use of third party libraries.
Unfortunately I'm not free to post the vbscript class. About the only thing I
can provide is some Python that does a hello world type thing at:

http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/notes/pypdf.html

Unless you want to get serious about figuring out the pdf format, I'd probably
suggest using a third party library.