Hi Malcolm Been there done that with the HTML and I thought I could do the same but if you require reliable constant output appearance HTML is frustrating. Consider different browsers, different browser versions will always produce different output.
If you want to insert information into an existing PDF form you can use the free Adobe FDF Toolkit to populate the PDF form http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/forms.html Not sure whether this toolkit has the ability to create PDFs from scratch, that is from a blank page. If not, you will probably need Adobe Acrobat or some other similar product to insert the form fields into a pdf in the first place. I understand HTML is certainly less expensive, is a processing lightweight (you won't have any problems hosting a HTML document generation process anywhere as you potentially will with a PDF solution) but the advantage of guaranteed reproducible output across any platform is huge. And very stress-free! I'm not affiliated with any of the above products BTW! Email me off list if you need any more info. cheers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm K Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ActiveServerPages" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 4:01 AM Subject: RE: Creating PDF Documents Gentlemen Thanks for the leads; however for the one-man developer who is working a 'maybe' type idea this is a little too large in price. I may just do the output in nice and pretty HTML; the cost will be a little reduced until such a time, etc., etc.. Thanks again for the prompt replies. I appreciate it very much. Malc www.ukhorseracing.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: David L. Penton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 August 2002 18:42 To: ActiveServerPages Subject: RE: Creating PDF Documents Expensive: www.activepdf.com David L. Penton, Microsoft MVP JCPenney Application Specialist / Lead "Mathematics is music for the mind, and Music is Mathematics for the Soul. - J.S. Bach" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you have the VBScript Docs or SQL BOL installed? If not, why not? VBScript Docs: http://www.davidpenton.com/vbscript SQL BOL: http://www.davidpenton.com/sqlbol -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm K Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I am looking to create PDF documents via ASP. I know that there are tools to do this via the Unix servers and this would mean using PHP. However, I would rather do this via ASP. Does anyone know of a component which exists that could be installed on the server to create PDF documents? I have asked and have looked but nought can be sought it seems. Malc --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
