generating and emailing PDF
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Topic: generating and emailing PDF
Posted By: urbantruth
Subject: generating and emailing PDF
Date Posted: 12 September 2005 at 7:27pm
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I have a client that has this masive application that needs to be filled out entirely online and then when submitted it creates a pdf and emails it to his office. So as a ASP noob I think i bit off more than i can chew any idea? I would appreciate any help that could get me started. Thanks. and idea i had was all the data would go into a database when it was submitted and then go to another page that would query the database and make a html page that would then be converted to a pdf saved on the server then emailed.
probably the hard way.
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 12 September 2005 at 8:24pm
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Haven't come accross any PDF maker objects, however emailing attachments is easy with most of the major email component objects. Your way sounds fine, it will make updates and changes to the data easy. |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 12 September 2005 at 8:39pm
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I've done some long form apps - like mortgage applications. Usually
wind up carrying the info in a session object and serializing it to the
db at the end of each page or when the page unloads. If you put some
code in the page to keep the session alive, it lets the user navigate
back and forth through the app and refreshes the page and session
object with changes they make. You also need to have the user set up an account so they can login and resume where they left off in case they can't fill out the form in one sitting. There's several asp pdf makers out there - asppdf is one. Most do an ok job if you keep it simple. ------------- 
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