[dba-Tech] PDF from ASP

Although this sounds like an interesting task to complete, "my" gut reaction
has to do with bandwidth and server response times.  Is this an inter- or
intra- net application?  Will the majority of users necessarily need a
downloadable .pdf for each and every query?


Mark




-----Original Message-----
From: Steven W. Erbach [mailto:serbach at new.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:23 PM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] PDF from ASP


Dear Group,

I'm going to be starting a project to convert an Access 2000 application to
a web-based front end with a SQL Server back end. I've told my client that
reports on the web leave a lot to be desired though several HTML pages can
be created to represent different sections on a report.

My client wants to know why a report generated on the web can't be formatted
with Adobe Acrobat. That is, when SQL Server returns the data and is ready
to spew it out into the web page layout, what about stuffing the data into a
PDF file instead?

My gut reaction is that this isn't possible; or, if it is, it would require
some pretty fancy programming.

I tried to tell him that converting an Access report into a PDF document
with one of the many PDF converters is a whole different animal from
creating a PDF document on-the-fly on the web from a SQL query.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI
920-969-0504

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