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Create PDF for Web applications

rjwies
Registered: Mar 23 2007
Posts: 2

What do I need to enable end users to create PDFs from a Web applicaton? What software do I need? Adobe or 3rd party products.
 
The site enables users to create reports. We need to give them the ability to create or print to PDF on the fly.
 
I am guessing there are server side utilities or APIs.
  
Many thanks

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
DuffJohnson
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Registered: May 30 2006
Posts: 96
This is a huge subject, and can't be effectively addressed in this forum. Yes... there are server-side utilities for you to look at. Start at appligent.com, apago.com or activepdf.com. Adobe also has server-side products for this, depending on your needs.

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stugreenberg
Registered: Apr 17 2009
Posts: 1
what are the details behind the statement:

"Adobe also has server-side products for this, depending on your needs."

i can't find any of these products. Can you tell me their names? I'm specially looking for .NET solution(s)
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Perhaps the reference is to [url=http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/]Adobe LiveCycle ES[/url]

A snippet from the product's SDK LiveDocs:

Quote:
Create a Microsoft .NET client assembly that consumes the GeneratePDF service WSDL.
Reference the Microsoft .NET client assembly.
Create a GeneratePDFServiceService object or GeneratePDFServiceServiceWse object (if DIME attachments are used) by using your proxy class’ constructor.
or see if the hits from the search string [i]"microsoft ".NET" to create pdf"[/i] provide some possible paths to follow.

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