Sending web-content to PDF, Excel, Flash, JPG?

[brucegonewild]

I display a set of data through a Chart (using Telerik Chart) and a data-grid... What I'm required to do is to save everything displayed on the page (as displayed on the page) in the following formats:
.pdf
.xls
flash
and jpeg.

Any idea on how to go about this?? I was hoping to be able to get a screen capture (programatically) and create a binary stream and go about writing to the files in above format... I'm not quite sure if this is a possibility at all (doing a screen-capture programmatically)...

Any how I apreciate any suggestion you may have

cheers!

 

[jmeckley]

I would question the value of the web page in each of these formats. but then if it's a directive reason doesn't matter

instead of trying to "export" the webpage to each of these formats, I would collect the data (presenter/controler) and format each one individually.

for PDFs I like to use crytal reports and export the data to pdf.
xls I use Calros.Args XML XLS writer
I haven't worked with flash, but i believe you can feed a flash template data, just like a webform.
if you need an image I would use crystal for that as well.

I would setup a controller for each format.

interface IController
{
   void Render();
}
WebController : IControler
{
}
PDFController : IControler
{
}
JpegController : IControler
{
}
XlsController : IControler
{
}
FlashController : IControler
{
}

then in each one set the formatting.
since your also using a 3rd party charting tool there may be options within the control to export as well.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.