Edit PDF files in Browser in asp.net
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Hi All, We are developing a intranet web application in asp.net where we need to provide users to edit the pdf files. In order to edit pdf files does we need to have adobe acrobat professional only on the server or we need to have it on every client machine. Can we get any free better pdf editor other than adobe acrobat professional.If anyone already used any better pdf editor please let me know...Thanks for your help
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Hi All, We are developing a intranet web application in asp.net where we need to provide users to edit the pdf files. In order to edit pdf files does we need to have adobe acrobat professional only on the server or we need to have it on every client machine. Can we get any free better pdf editor other than adobe acrobat professional.If anyone already used any better pdf editor please let me know...Thanks for your help
I am not familiar with any PDF editing software other than Adobe Acrobat, so I cannot make any suggestions in that regard. I think I see a problem in your requirements, though. The file is being retrieved through intranet. That retrieval is being done by the web browser, which simply passes it along to an application designated locally to handle PDF documents, so every possible workstation would have to have its own (hopefully licensed) copy of whatever application you will be using. Some Adobe products, but not all, will allow the user to save the document as transmitted to their local machine. Some, but not all, will allow the user to add or edit information in form fields and save the revised document to the local machine. I have never seen any Adobe product that will push a document back to the server. And even if there were, you would run into concurrency problems, where two people try to push different versions of the same document back. I would think a better solution would be to use a regular network rather than an intranet, and save the documents in a source control repository such as Visual Source Safe. The person who is editing the document can check out a copy to their local machine (which avoids the concurrency problem, as only one person will have an editable copy), make their edits and then check it back in. The source control handles transferring the document over the network, and provides a back-up in case you need to roll back to an earlier version. This is what my company does. Many of our online forms are PDFs; they get edited locally and saved back to VSS. When the document is done, we go to the web server and "get latest" from VSS into our live site.
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Hi All, We are developing a intranet web application in asp.net where we need to provide users to edit the pdf files. In order to edit pdf files does we need to have adobe acrobat professional only on the server or we need to have it on every client machine. Can we get any free better pdf editor other than adobe acrobat professional.If anyone already used any better pdf editor please let me know...Thanks for your help
Have you looked at Microsoft InfoPath? It handles Documents and server/client side stuff. Not sure if it meets your needs but it does allow editing of forms like pay checks, work orders and other stuff the form just needs to be made and it handles the rest.