Server Side PDF Tool HELP!!!

16 Dec 2006 10:47 PM

KT

I am looking for a server side PDF tool that provides various PDF services to
ASP.NET applications.

We have a common need to programmatically open, manipulate PDF files on the
web application server for output to the web.
client.

Specifically, we want to:

1. Withing existing PDF files, enter info into text fields on the PDF and
capture that data to write back to a database
2. Create new PDF documents on the server with data from a DB
3. Populate existing PDF form fields with data from a DB

17 Dec 2006 4:18 AM

Plamen Ratchev

Hi,

For 1 and 3 on your list you can take a look at the Acrobat Forms Data
Format (FDF) Toolkit from the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.html

There is a sample for using with ASP.NET.

As for 2, you can use the Crystal Reports version that comes with Visual
Studio. It is easy to design reports based on data from your database and
then save the report output to a PDF file (all supported by the Crystal
Reports methods).

Regards,

Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com

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"KT" <K*@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am looking for a server side PDF tool that provides various PDF services
>to
> ASP.NET applications.
>
> We have a common need to programmatically open, manipulate PDF files on
> the
> web application server for output to the web.
> client.
>
> Specifically, we want to:
>
> 1. Withing existing PDF files, enter info into text fields on the PDF and
> capture that data to write back to a database
> 2. Create new PDF documents on the server with data from a DB
> 3. Populate existing PDF form fields with data from a DB
>