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MS Office Forum / Word / Mailmerge and Fax / May 2004Server-side Word Merge to PDF
The project I'm working on allows the end user to answer questions via a website. The results are stored in a database. At the end of the process, the user will want to view/print both the questions and their answers in PDF format from their browser. Our initial thought to solve this was to create a Active Server Page that would do a server-side Word Merge, save the output to PDF, then serve up that PDF back to the browser. Our operations folks say that running Word on a server is not a good idea (performance, security, threading, etc...). So my question is how can I generate a professional looking large document (complete with page numbering and all formatting) in a secure format (PDF) back to the user's browser? Hi =?Utf-8?B?QnJpYW4gVy4=?=, This is not something I've ever tried, but... I'd say, generate it as XML for PDF? I think there's an XML for PDF files. > The project I'm working on allows the end user to answer questions via a website. The results are stored in a database. At the end of the process, the user will want to view/print both the questions and their answers in PDF format from their browser. Our initial thought to solve this was to create a Active Server Page that would do a server-side Word Merge, save the output to PDF, then serve up that PDF back to the browser. Our operations folks say that running Word on a server is not a good idea (performance, security, threading, etc...). So my question is how can I generate a professional looking large document (complete with page numbering and all formatting) in a secure format (PDF) back to the user's browser? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
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