Hi,
Does anyone know of the best way to have ASP reading information from a database and then exporting it to a PDF at all please?
I am using a web hosting solution where I presume I will not be allowed to ask them to install anything.
Thanks,
Suzy 
they won't even let you ask? Damn that's strict 
If you can't install anything I think you're doomed, unless there's some website out there that'll do it on the fly for you.
you'll need a third party tool to do it. Either that or you can export it out to XML doc to be read in by open office and then save as PDF from there. Naturally you'll probably loose some print layout stuff you may have been trying to preserve.
Thanks guys
Can anyone recommend a third party tool please? They have budget so cost doesn't really matter but I need to create an ASP that queries the database but then outputs the results as a PDF for the user to view and save.
The rather cleverly named AspPDF component from Persists does the job and is not hard to use for simple applications.
But - be aware that this is no fun whatsoever to work with if you require any serious formatting.
There are two ways to do it, either by constructing a very limited HTML page in the PDF object; or by converting an existing HTML page (which can be dynamic) to PDF.
I spent several days using this and almost got fired for the language I produced!
Cheers scudsucker, but doesn't that one require being installed on the server? Because they are using shared web hosting I cannot install anything on it :(
To the best of my knowledge, you won't be able to do it without a component installed on the server.
You might get luck and find a site that does it (paid service) so you post your data to them and they return a PDF.
But first.. see if the hosts already have any form of PDF componant you can use.
Originally posted by: scudsucker To the best of my knowledge, you won't be able to do it without a component installed on the server.
You might get luck and find a site that does it (paid service) so you post your data to them and they return a PDF.
But first.. see if the hosts already have any form of PDF componant you can use.
Yeah, I emailed the hosts and they don't unfortunately.
Hows about this one Suzy
Cheers Jamie
I found the right search words to put into Google at last too so found a few others I can try.
Thanks again