Create PDF with PDFCreator on ASP.NET

I don't know how many of you have been trying to create pdf report online with open source pdf .net control. I have been through many of these. Either it is erroneous or costs too much of design time to create a report..
The following is my attempt recently to create pdf on fly with a open source product, PDF creator, http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

<%@ Page Language="C#" debug="true"%>

<%@ import Namespace="System" %>

<%@ import Namespace="System.IO" %>

<%@ import Namespace="System.Diagnostics" %>

void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

// Get a file name relative to the current Web app.

//ProcessStartInfo i = new ProcessStartInfo("myexe.exe", "-arg1 -arg1 -others");

try {

string file = Server.MapPath(@"bin\PDFCreator.exe");

// Response.Write(file);

// return;

System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo(file, "/NOSTART /PF\"C:/test.html\"");

// Redirect output so we can read it.

info.RedirectStandardOutput = true;

// To redirect, we must not use shell execute.

info.UseShellExecute = false;

// Create and execute the process.

Process p = Process.Start(info);

p.Start();

// Send whatever was returned through the output to the client.

Response.Clear();

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

Response.Write(p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd());

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Response.Write(ex.ToString());

}

</script>

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Warning!! This program is not working yet.
But I have the gut feeling that it is possible to create a pretty stable and good webcontrol from this

(To be continued ...)

posted on 2005-06-03 05:37 netspring 阅读(1163) 评论(0) 收藏举报