SneezeDragon
Programmer
I'm looking to create PDF files on-the-fly for an existing e-commerce website. I've read the other posts on automatic creation of PDF, and I'm still not sure of the best way to go about it. Any advice would be appreciated.
REQUIREMENTS:
We need external (internet) customers to be able to click on a button on the website from any web browser, and have a printable version of a custom invoice appear.
PDF is probably the best bet because each page in the printable version must have very specifically formatted headers and footers.
The number of individual records in the invoice body varies from order to order, so I'm not sure this will work using FDF Toolkit.
Programmatically, I'll be retrieving the customer's info on the web server from an Oracle database via ASP or COM (Visual Basic 6) and then using that information to create the file.
My questions are:
1) Is it possible to do this?
2) What are the possible approaches to the PDF part of this development? Which in your opinion is the best approach?
2) What development software is needed, besides Acrobat (full version) and the stuff I'm already using (MS Interdev and VB) ?
3) What software, if any, needs to be installed on the server in order for this to work?
Thanks in advance for all your help! (Sorry this sounds like an essay test.)
REQUIREMENTS:
We need external (internet) customers to be able to click on a button on the website from any web browser, and have a printable version of a custom invoice appear.
PDF is probably the best bet because each page in the printable version must have very specifically formatted headers and footers.
The number of individual records in the invoice body varies from order to order, so I'm not sure this will work using FDF Toolkit.
Programmatically, I'll be retrieving the customer's info on the web server from an Oracle database via ASP or COM (Visual Basic 6) and then using that information to create the file.
My questions are:
1) Is it possible to do this?
2) What are the possible approaches to the PDF part of this development? Which in your opinion is the best approach?
2) What development software is needed, besides Acrobat (full version) and the stuff I'm already using (MS Interdev and VB) ?
3) What software, if any, needs to be installed on the server in order for this to work?
Thanks in advance for all your help! (Sorry this sounds like an essay test.)