Creating PDF's

[NatGreen]

Currently I am working on creating PDF files. Does anyone know of any good articles and/or books on XML > PDF: XSL-FO?

Thanks.
NatGreen

 

[jfrost10]

Hey Nat,

We actually just finsihed a small project on this. Unfortunately, we had to use a Java program to accomplish this (and I only heard from the two developers who accomplished this).

Monday's a holiday up here in Canada, so Tuesday I can ask them how they pulled it off and let you know.

Jack

 

[Stretchy]

Is this creating PDF's on-the-fly? coz i need to do that. user clicks on a press release and this gets converted to a pdf from a .doc on-the-fly and presented to the web brower. _______________
Stretchy [Pipe]

 

[link9]

activePDF is the only solution I have found that creates .pdf's on the fly from existing pages. Works very well with ASP classic. .NET support is coming soon they say. For now, to use it with .NET takes a bit of massaging. What I do is use the system.net namespace utilities to scrape the content from the screen, put the html source into a datafield in sql server and then transfer control to an asp classic page, which reads from that field, creates the pdf, and serves it to the user.

It's pretty expensive, though. Plan to spend about $1000 US if you want it.

 

[jfrost10]

Hey guys,

Here's a link to the software we used for the pdf transformations:

http://xml.apache.org/fop/

It's FREE, but it does have a slight learning curve. Once you get going with it though, it kicks @$$.

Jack