Exporting an ASPX's HTML to PDF

[Valerian John]

I am looking for a way to sort of redirect the Page.Response content to a
pdf generator component that would create a pdf file on the fly! I wonder
if there is such a thing in the .net world. I see a java based product that
may do this (from CORDA).

This is really my problem: My asp.net page creates a complex report using
web controls and I would like to be able to overcome browser printing issues
by converting the resulting html to pdf on the fly. I would like to avoid
recreating these reports/pages using a 3rd party pdf component's object
model.

TIA,
John

[Elton Wang]

It seems CORDA can also be used for .NET.
http://corda.com/devzone/code/showcode.html?
id=3&platform=a spx_cs

HTH

Elton Wang
el********@hotm ail.com

-----Original Message-----
I am looking for a way to sort of redirect the Page.Response content to apdf generator component that would create a pdf file on the fly! I wonderif there is such a thing in the .net world. I see a java based product thatmay do this (from CORDA).

This is really my problem: My asp.net page creates a complex report usingweb controls and I would like to be able to overcome browser printing issuesby converting the resulting html to pdf on the fly. I would like to avoidrecreating these reports/pages using a 3rd party pdf component's objectmodel.

TIA,
John
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[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

Perhaps this free PDF code will be of use to you:
http://www.ujihara.jp/iTextdotNET/en/index.html

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net
"Valerian John" <vj***@shentel. net> wrote in message
news:%2******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP12.phx.gbl.. .

I am looking for a way to sort of redirect the Page.Response content to a
pdf generator component that would create a pdf file on the fly! I wonder
if there is such a thing in the .net world. I see a java based product
that may do this (from CORDA).

This is really my problem: My asp.net page creates a complex report using
web controls and I would like to be able to overcome browser printing
issues by converting the resulting html to pdf on the fly. I would like
to avoid recreating these reports/pages using a 3rd party pdf component's
object model.

TIA,
John

[Bruce Barker]

neither itext nor corda support more than the simplest html (1.0), no style
support,etc. if you can live with this, have your page use webclient to call
report apsx page, then convert the html to pdf and write back to the client.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
"Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.ne t> wrote in message
news:uN******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P15.phx.gbl...

Perhaps this free PDF code will be of use to you:
http://www.ujihara.jp/iTextdotNET/en/index.html

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net
"Valerian John" <vj***@shentel. net> wrote in message
news:%2******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP12.phx.gbl.. .

I am looking for a way to sort of redirect the Page.Response content to a
pdf generator component that would create a pdf file on the fly! I wonder
if there is such a thing in the .net world. I see a java based product
that may do this (from CORDA).

This is really my problem: My asp.net page creates a complex report
using web controls and I would like to be able to overcome browser
printing issues by converting the resulting html to pdf on the fly. I
would like to avoid recreating these reports/pages using a 3rd party pdf
component's object model.

TIA,
John

[Valerian John]

Thank you, Elton, Steve and Bruce for your responses/help. (Steve: good
articles on your website)

I did run into the iText and HTMLDOC tools but like Bruce has noted they
only do simple html. I also checked out Aspose.pdf and they have a similar
problem (under development).

The suggestion about WebClient seems plausible. Is this how one can do
this? (cut/paste from MSDN) I guess it would still be plain html without
css because css is really applied by the browser on the client-side?
(Perhaps I must use Aspose.pdf, or similar, and recreate the report using
the pdf object model!)

***********
' Initialize the WebRequest.
Dim myRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest.Crea te("http://www.contoso.com ")
' Return the response.
Dim myResponse As WebResponse = myRequest.GetRe sponse()
'Set the appropriate ContentType
Response.Conten tType = "Applicatio n/pdf"
'Get the physical path to the file.
Dim FilePath As String = MapPath("acroba t.pdf")
'Write the file directly to the HTTP output stream.
Response.WriteF ile(FilePath)
Response.End()
Response.Redire ct("acrobat.pdf ")
' Close the response to free resources.
myResponse.Clos e()
***********

TIA,
John

(aside: How is Developersdex able to forward reponses to one's post here?)

"Bruce Barker" <br************ ******@safeco.c om> wrote in message
news:eZ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...

neither itext nor corda support more than the simplest html (1.0), no
style support,etc. if you can live with this, have your page use webclient
to call report apsx page, then convert the html to pdf and write back to
the client.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
"Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]" <St***@Orr.ne t> wrote in message
news:uN******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P15.phx.gbl...

Perhaps this free PDF code will be of use to you:
http://www.ujihara.jp/iTextdotNET/en/index.html

--
I hope this helps,
Steve C. Orr, MCSD, MVP
http://SteveOrr.net
"Valerian John" <vj***@shentel. net> wrote in message
news:%2******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP12.phx.gbl.. .

I am looking for a way to sort of redirect the Page.Response content to a
pdf generator component that would create a pdf file on the fly! I
wonder if there is such a thing in the .net world. I see a java based
product that may do this (from CORDA).

This is really my problem: My asp.net page creates a complex report
using web controls and I would like to be able to overcome browser
printing issues by converting the resulting html to pdf on the fly. I
would like to avoid recreating these reports/pages using a 3rd party pdf
component's object model.

TIA,
John