Poss to save HTML Form as a PDF? 2

[GaryCam]

I've never done anything like this before & need help. If I'm posting this in the wrong forum, please set me straight.

A client wants his customers to be able to order custom postcards from his website. The site will have a form which the visitor will fill out. After submitting this form, the visitor's data will be arranged in a predetermined format and presented as a proof of the resulting postcard. If everything looks OK to him, he can click a button which will email a PDF of the postcard both to him and the site's owner. The site's owner will then print the postacrds from the PDF file.

Does anyone know of a SIMPLE way to do this? I've seen some utilities for sale that will do this but are WAY beyond my capabilities.

Thanks in advance,
Gary

 

[Sheco]

It probably won't be simple...

The most simple way to do it is probably also the most expensive... buy the tools from Adobe.

You could also try searching google for an ActiveX component that will do the job... I think this is one but I'm not sure since it isn't in English:

http://www.aspxnet.it/public/Default.asp?page=58

Also there is a PDF print driver project up on SourceForge. You could probably take the code as a starting point for programming your own ActiveX object:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

 

[ASPWizard]

If you have the ability to add a component to the file server I would recommend abcPDF which allows you to create a PDF dynamically from ASP or ASP.Net.

This is normally a $329 program but the developers will give you a free license if you promote them on your site. Here is a link to information on this product.

http://www.websupergoo.com/products.htm#pd

I've used it for a couple of years now and been very happy with the results.

If you do not have the ability to add components I can't think of a way that you'll be able to do it directly. You could possibly do a multi-step process that would send the HTML to you via e-mail and setup some complex processing that would then convert it to a PDF and send it back, but that would be a large undertaking with a lot of possible points of failure.

 

[GaryCam]

Thanks to both of you for your help. I've checked out the links you provided. My first approach will be to convince my client to accept something other than a PDF.

Thanks much,
Gary