Save To PDF from a Web Page...
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Well after lots of Googling and not being at all sure of what I found. I thought ComponentOne had solved my problem. Especially after a live chat with a sales support person who assured me that ComponentOne for ASP .Net 2.0 had PDF support so that a web page could save text to a server-side directory as a PDF file. Well it appears he was wrong especially after installing and seeing the only product that has that support is Winforms. So now I've promised a potential client that I had spoken with a vendor and located a control that could do what they want and I was wrong. Does anybody know of a 3rd party control you can invoke from an ASP .Net 2.0 web page to save PDF's in a directory on the server? I hope someone has because Google is leaving me high and dry... - Rex
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Well after lots of Googling and not being at all sure of what I found. I thought ComponentOne had solved my problem. Especially after a live chat with a sales support person who assured me that ComponentOne for ASP .Net 2.0 had PDF support so that a web page could save text to a server-side directory as a PDF file. Well it appears he was wrong especially after installing and seeing the only product that has that support is Winforms. So now I've promised a potential client that I had spoken with a vendor and located a control that could do what they want and I was wrong. Does anybody know of a 3rd party control you can invoke from an ASP .Net 2.0 web page to save PDF's in a directory on the server? I hope someone has because Google is leaving me high and dry... - Rex
Perhaps you were not communicating with the sales person correctly. I suggest you jump a flight to their office and use the universal IT communicator commonly called a taser to clarify precisely how the control should work. With any luck at all you will become satisfied with the overall sales experience. I hate when I get sold something that will not work it just makes work so much harder.
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:doh: I had searched here but not found the "glass slipper" I'm looking for. Or wait... the foot that fits the glass slipper I mean. Anyway, I just spoke with the client and he explained to me what he wants which is very different from what I thought... Things just got easier.
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
Don't you just love it when users lie to you?
The inhabitants of tech support call centers aren't much better either...the difference being though, that it's not in their interest to let you get your job done, they aren't worried about wasting time, because it's not theirs :eek: Roswell:mad:
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
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Well after lots of Googling and not being at all sure of what I found. I thought ComponentOne had solved my problem. Especially after a live chat with a sales support person who assured me that ComponentOne for ASP .Net 2.0 had PDF support so that a web page could save text to a server-side directory as a PDF file. Well it appears he was wrong especially after installing and seeing the only product that has that support is Winforms. So now I've promised a potential client that I had spoken with a vendor and located a control that could do what they want and I was wrong. Does anybody know of a 3rd party control you can invoke from an ASP .Net 2.0 web page to save PDF's in a directory on the server? I hope someone has because Google is leaving me high and dry... - Rex
i've used ActivePDF, in the past.
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So this will work inside a web page? Specifically if I have a PDF on the webserver a client can open that PDF make editing changes and write it back to the server all from ASP .NET? - Rex
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Perhaps you were not communicating with the sales person correctly. I suggest you jump a flight to their office and use the universal IT communicator commonly called a taser to clarify precisely how the control should work. With any luck at all you will become satisfied with the overall sales experience. I hate when I get sold something that will not work it just makes work so much harder.
Well I'm still in the trial. However I'm not happy at wasting 2 hours and bandwidth to download the stupid thing. I've always believed if more people tasered each other world peace would be a feasible concept. I mean after being hit with 50,000 volts who *isn't* thinking peaceful thoughts?:rolleyes:
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So this will work inside a web page? Specifically if I have a PDF on the webserver a client can open that PDF make editing changes and write it back to the server all from ASP .NET? - Rex
All depends on how you plan on implementing the edit feature. Are you editing prefab PDF forms and just using ASP.net to fill in some text, or creating from scratch/completely custom pdfs. Quick Google for 'Amyuni ASP.net' found this one http://www.amyuni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3880&[^] I don't have a place to install and try this at the moment, however a quick browse through the demos source code might give you idea of what its capable of.
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All depends on how you plan on implementing the edit feature. Are you editing prefab PDF forms and just using ASP.net to fill in some text, or creating from scratch/completely custom pdfs. Quick Google for 'Amyuni ASP.net' found this one http://www.amyuni.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3880&[^] I don't have a place to install and try this at the moment, however a quick browse through the demos source code might give you idea of what its capable of.
It's for a print media agency so they will be allowing customers to do markup on PDF's that already exist.
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Well after lots of Googling and not being at all sure of what I found. I thought ComponentOne had solved my problem. Especially after a live chat with a sales support person who assured me that ComponentOne for ASP .Net 2.0 had PDF support so that a web page could save text to a server-side directory as a PDF file. Well it appears he was wrong especially after installing and seeing the only product that has that support is Winforms. So now I've promised a potential client that I had spoken with a vendor and located a control that could do what they want and I was wrong. Does anybody know of a 3rd party control you can invoke from an ASP .Net 2.0 web page to save PDF's in a directory on the server? I hope someone has because Google is leaving me high and dry... - Rex
Hello Code-Frog, You can use ComponentOne PDF for .NET in an ASP.NET page. C1PDF does not have a GUI, so even though it is a .NET control, it works in an ASP.NET page also. With earlier VS versions, you could see ASP.NET compatible .NET controls in the toolbox along with the regular ASP controls, but there is an extra step for VS2005. You need to go to the design view of your .aspx page, then go to the Main Menu and select View|Component Designer (refer to http://helpcentral.componentone.com/PrintableView.aspx?ID=1405[^]). This view will allow you to add C1PDF to your WebForm. Then you can get input from the end user or wherever and add it as plain text or RTF to a PDF document. You can change the font and color of the plain text. The resulting document can then be saved to a file or stream.
Suelinda W Customer Engagement, ComponentOne LLC http:\\www.componentone.com
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Hello Code-Frog, You can use ComponentOne PDF for .NET in an ASP.NET page. C1PDF does not have a GUI, so even though it is a .NET control, it works in an ASP.NET page also. With earlier VS versions, you could see ASP.NET compatible .NET controls in the toolbox along with the regular ASP controls, but there is an extra step for VS2005. You need to go to the design view of your .aspx page, then go to the Main Menu and select View|Component Designer (refer to http://helpcentral.componentone.com/PrintableView.aspx?ID=1405[^]). This view will allow you to add C1PDF to your WebForm. Then you can get input from the end user or wherever and add it as plain text or RTF to a PDF document. You can change the font and color of the plain text. The resulting document can then be saved to a file or stream.
Suelinda W Customer Engagement, ComponentOne LLC http:\\www.componentone.com
Here's what I really need to know before I install this on my development workstation to begin testing. Will this control allow me to display a PDF to a website visitor, enable them to mark up the PDF and then save it back to the file? Is there an example anywhere that demonstrates using the control?