create a pdf document with ASP - Web Development Discussion Boards

webProgrammer5-Sep-03 12:30

5-Sep-03 12:30

believe it or not I happen to have seen all of this before and I still posted the message because, if you would look a little further into the css documentation and specification in "section 13.2.2" you will notice that these are only what they would like to do for the future, however the pagesize property of css will not work in current browsers, and I know this for a fact, since I have tested them all in Netscape and IE, I can also tell you that the "margin" atribute of the "page" property will work (at least in IE).

the reason I asked you to explain was because I thought you had found an alternative way of doing things (a way that might work).

even though I have already established that what I would like to do is not possible through either javascript or CSS, I really appreciate your consideration and help.

Re: setting print options in javascript

Diederik de Haas5-Sep-03 13:25

Diederik de Haas

5-Sep-03 13:25

Damn, you're right Wink | ;)

I've created my own test page an tried it in IE6, Mozilla 1.4 and Opera 7.11 and it was still portrait Frown | :(

As it turns out I did know how it should be done, not how it works Poke tongue | ;-P

The real problem is that browsers still don't implement an important W3C Recommendation dated 12-May-1998 decently!
As far as Mozilla is concerned I'll probably gonna file this as a bug (after some more testing).

Getting Server Drive Space Info

Nino_127-Aug-03 10:11

Nino_1

27-Aug-03 10:11

Hi,

I'm trying to get data from my network servers, and add the literal data onto a chart using (Office web Components). I have the chart working with information from the local machine that the ASP code is running on, however, I need to get information from all servers within my LAN. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? I've tried using FSO to get access to an admin share ($) but script returns error -- path not found.

Thanks

Tony

How to get response after posting form data

haritadala27-Aug-03 7:59

haritadala

27-Aug-03 7:59

Hello all

I'm posting some form data to server which processes the data and will give a webpage in reply depending on success or failure. How to know what kind of page server is giving in reply cause I had to process some data depending ont he webpage I'm getting in reply. I'm using javascript.

if anyone knows how to do it, pls help me.

thanks
Hari.

Re: How to get response after posting form data

brianwelsch31-Aug-03 3:38

brianwelsch

31-Aug-03 3:38

Are you looking for error code values?

here is a list[^] of them

let the whole world look in
who cares who sees anything

Re: How to get response after posting form data

haritadala1-Sep-03 3:51

haritadala

1-Sep-03 3:51

Hello brain

Thanks for the reply. I'm not looking for error values. when I post data to the server, I will get one of the two pages in reply depending the data I post to server. How to know what page I'm getting in reply. I want to further processing depending on the page I'm getting in reply.

If you know how to handle this, pls help.

Thanks
Hari.

Re: How to get response after posting form data

brianwelsch2-Sep-03 13:57

brianwelsch

2-Sep-03 13:57

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity,
reduce selfishness, have few desires."
-- Lao Tzu

create a pdf document with ASP

Jerome Conus26-Aug-03 19:56

Jerome Conus

26-Aug-03 19:56

Hi !

I'm using ASP (not ASP.NET) to create some HTML pages and I'd like to create pdf documents to print them directly on the printer.

Is it possible to do that in ASP ? Is there a free tool ro library to do that ?

Thanks for your help !
Jerome

Re: create a pdf document with ASP

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar2-Sep-03 18:46

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

2-Sep-03 18:46

Hi Jerome:

See if this link helps you:

http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/download/index.html[^]

Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
http://deepak.portland.co.uk/

Completely Confused

RB@Emphasys26-Aug-03 16:41

RB@Emphasys

26-Aug-03 16:41

Sorry for a stupid question everyone, but I just bought a book that go's over asp.net, and the first example throws an error. Here is the code, it tells me that a ";" is expected on line 5. Im totally confused.
"

<%@ Page Language='C#' %>

double ToCelsius(double f)
{
return (5.0/9.0) * (f-32.0);
}

Fahrenheit to Celsius Conversion Chart

<%
for (double f = 50.0; f<=100.0; f++)
{
//sends formatted output to HTTP Response
Response.Output.Write("", f, ToCelsisus(f));
}
%>

° Fahrenheit	° Celsius
{0}	{1:f}

"

Thanks!
Ryan

Help!

lnong26-Aug-03 9:55

lnong

26-Aug-03 9:55

In my Perl script , Im using Win32::OLE to access and read an Excel file. The annoying thing is that every time an Excel file is accessed, a shortcut for it is automatically created at the root of my C: drive. If I access 3 different Excel files, there will be 3 different shortcuts created. These are not temporary files -- they remain there permanently (until I manually delete them). What is doing this??? Is there some Excel macro that's doing this? Or does it have to do with some configuration setting in IIS? I've been trying to search the internet for this topic but cant find anything. Please help if you can. Thanks.

ASP: Connection problem (MySQL)

knoppen26-Aug-03 3:48

knoppen

26-Aug-03 3:48

Hello. My problem is that I wrote a session handling-script from a book I bought, but the code they have connects to a MS Access database. I can't use Access databases at my webhotel so I tried to rewrite it to connect to MySQL instead. It doesn't work for me.

The MS Access version connects via a file called Global.asa and via ODBC. The Global.asa file looks like this:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript RUNAT=Server>
SUB Application_OnStart
Application.Lock
Application("Conn") = "driver={SQL Server};SERVER=localhost;UID=login;PWD=password;Database=database"
Application.UnLock
END SUB
</SCRIPT>

(The SQL Server code I've added myself, it's supposed to be the same type of connectioncode there but for Access)

And this is how my connection strings in the documents looks like:

Login:

<%
un = Request.Querystring("un")
pw = Request.Querystring("pw")
If (Len(un) > 0) And (Len(pw) > 0) Then
Set Cmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Cmd.ActiveConnection = Application("Conn")
ssql = "SELECT id FROM cmy_se WHERE un = '" & un & "'"
ssql = ssql & " AND pw = '" & pw & "'"
Cmd.CommandText = ssql
Cmd.CommandType = adCmdText
SET Rs = Cmd.Execute
if NOT Rs.EOF Then
Session("userid") = Rs("id")
%>

Newmember:

<%
email = Request.Form("email")
un = Request.Form("un")
pw = Request.Form("pw")
If (Len(email) > 0) AND (Len(un) > 0) AND (Len(pw) > 0) Then
Set Cmd = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Cmd.ActiveConnection = Application("Conn")
ssql = "SELECT * FROM cmy_se WHERE un = '" & un & "'"
ssql = ssql & " AND pw = '" & pw & "'"
Cmd.CommandText = ssql
Cmd.CommandType = adCmdText
Set Rs = Cmd.Execute
If Rs.EOF Then
SQLStmt = "INSERT INTO cmy_se"
SQLStmt = SQLStmt & "(email,un,pw)"
SQLStmt = SQLStmt & "VALUES(?,?,?)"
Cmd.CommandText = SQLStmt
Cmd.CommandType = adCmdText
Set prm = Cmd.CreateParameter (,adVarChar,,Len(email),email)
Cmd.Parameters.Append prm
Set prm = Cmd.CreateParameter (,adVarChar,,Len(un),un)
Cmd.Parameters.Append prm
Set prm = Cmd.CreateParameter (,adVarChar,,Len(pw),pw)
Cmd.Parameters.Append prm
Cmd.Execute
ssql = "SELECT id FROM cmy_se WHERE un = '" & un & "'"
ssql = ssql & " AND pw = '" & pw & "'"
Cmd.CommandText = ssql
Cmd.CommandType = adCmdText
Set Rs = Cmd.Execute
If Not Rs.EOF Then
Session("userid") = Rs("id")
%>

What changes must I make to get it to work with my MySQL database?

Might I add I can't use ODBC or DSN, I have to use a direct connection.

Thank you.

Yeah..

Re: ASP: Connection problem (MySQL)

MKlucher28-Aug-03 17:54

MKlucher

28-Aug-03 17:54

Some people on the ASP.NET forums have been talking this one up but I don't think it's free http://crlab.com/mysqlnet/[^] there are a couple of open source things on sourceforge but I don't think they are complete but you could give them a try. The only other way is using ODBC.

Re: ASP: Connection problem (MySQL)

Diederik de Haas5-Sep-03 5:00

Diederik de Haas

5-Sep-03 5:00

As far as I can see, you're not using a Connection object, but the ConnectionString property of that object!
Beside that you'll probably want the MyOLEDB provider.

To get it to work:
objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.ConnectionString = "driver={SQL Server};SERVER=localhost;UID=loginWD=password;Database=database"

A word of caution: don't open the database connection in your global.asa. This will 'kill' the webserver if you have more than 1 user. IOW: open the connection just before querying and close it as soon as possible thereafter.

Layout question

Tomas Petricek26-Aug-03 0:35

Tomas Petricek

26-Aug-03 0:35

Hi,
is it possible to create web page layout like this:

 ______________________
|       |              |
| 100px | Width-100px  |
|<----->|<------------>|
|       |              |
|       |              |
|_______|______________|

using DIVs and styles ?
I know how to divide page to two parts using width in percents but how to do this with pixels ?

Thanks! Smile | :)

i'm only pointer to myself

Re: Layout question

Paul Watson26-Aug-03 1:10

Paul Watson

26-Aug-03 1:10

Do you mean 100% in the second block, not 100px?

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Crikey! ain't life grand?

Re: Layout question

Tomas Petricek26-Aug-03 1:22

Tomas Petricek

26-Aug-03 1:22

I mean something like this (but without table):

<table width="100%">
<tr>
  <td width="100px"> Left... </td>
  <td> Right... </td>
</tr>
</table>

i'm only pointer to myself

Re: Layout question

Paul Watson26-Aug-03 2:15

Paul Watson

26-Aug-03 2:15

Ok, so a fixed width left column and the a variable width content column.

Sure, use this:

<div id="navigation">
    <ul>
        <li><a title="Page link" href="">Page 1</a></li>
        <li><a title="Page link" href="">Page 2</a></li>
        <li><a title="Page link" href="">Page 3</a></li>
        <li><a title="Page link" href="">Page 4</a></li>
        <li><a title="Page link" href="">Page 5</a></li>
        <li><a title="Page link" href="">Page 6</a></li>
    </ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
    <h1>Page Title</h1>
    <p>Content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content.</p>
    <p>Content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content.</p>
    <p>Content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content.</p>
    <p>Content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content content.</p>
</div>

and then CSS:

div#navigation
{
	width: 100px;
	float: left;
	border: solid 1px #000000;
	height: 100%;	
}

div#content
{	
	padding-left: 120px;	
	border: solid 1px #000000;	
}

So the idea is to have a DIV on the left with float:left set and a fixed width. Then the DIV on the right expands to fill the space. The padding-left: 120px; keeps it off the left DIV.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Crikey! ain't life grand?

Re: Layout question

Tomas Petricek26-Aug-03 2:27

Tomas Petricek

26-Aug-03 2:27

Thank you !
Smile | :)

i'm only pointer to myself

Re: Layout question

ZoogieZork26-Aug-03 2:05

ZoogieZork

26-Aug-03 2:05

<style type="text/css"><!--
  body {
    margin: 0 0 0 0;
  }
  div.nav {
    position: absolute;
    width: 100px;
    background-color: #dfdfdf;
    height: 100%;
  }
  div.content {
    position: relative;
    left: 100px;
    right: 0;
    background-color: #7f7f7f;
    height: 100%;
  }
--></style>

<div class="nav">
  Asparagus
</div>

<div class="content">
  Content
</div>

- Mike

Re: Layout question

Paul Watson26-Aug-03 6:46

Paul Watson

26-Aug-03 6:46

That is a pretty cool way of doing it as well Mike. I really need to remember absolute positioning more.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Crikey! ain't life grand?

tab or indent

pnpfriend25-Aug-03 10:33

pnpfriend

25-Aug-03 10:33

I have to convert Rich Text (rtf) code to HTML code so they can display on the internet explore...

In RTF code, there is \tab which is same as pressing Tab key to move/ jump to next 10 space from original in notepad\wordpad\or MSWord...
I mean... ( considering dot (.) as a space )

abcd.........efgh.........ijklm.......... nopqrst .......... uvwxyz
ok...........this.........is a........... three row......... and
five.........columns......but............ not using......... table

I dont' no I can't use < table >

Is there anyway that display tab or spaces in the browser without using table tag??

hello........ how .......... are you?
hello........ I'm .......... fine
hello........ you .......... are nice

thank you

Re: tab or indent

Anonymous26-Aug-03 4:46

Anonymous

26-Aug-03 4:46

Are you using VS.NET
Are you using VB or C#

Need more info.

Will

Re: tab or indent

pnpfriend27-Aug-03 3:55

pnpfriend

27-Aug-03 3:55

i'm sorry to reply you that late..
i'm using VB.Net and vbTab is not recognized by web browser

Browser shortcut to an exe

3green25-Aug-03 5:27

3green

25-Aug-03 5:27

I have been searching for information on wether it is possible
to add a shortcut to the favourites in the IE browser that links
to an application ( a .exe program) on the local computer as
opposed to a url on the web.

Can anyone give me information on this, is it possible?

many thanks

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