On Jun 14, 6:07 pm, ITistic <s...@itistic.com> wrote:
> Here's my predicament - I've got a client who I've written an
> extensive ASP.NET app for who needs the ability to print multi-page
> dynamic contracts in a format which will print properly (most likely
> PDF). The contracts are old ASP 3.0 pages now but they don't always
> print properly due to the fact they are merely web pages and now we
> need to migrate from a single page report to a multi-page report. Any
> ideas how I can accomplish this without spending a boat load? I've use
> VS 2005 for development and are aware of the Crystal Reports
> functionality built-in. Not sure if this is a good solution or not?
> The database is MySQL, not SQL Server, which I have a feeling won't
> agree well with Crystal. Maybe I'm wrong. I've also seen the Visual
> Studio .RDLC report format but it doesn't seem this supports multiple
> pages. I own Telerik Reporting as well but I can't get IT to do multi-
> page reports either. By multi-page I don't mean one detail section
> with multiple pages of data. The first page is very dynamic. The
> second page is all static (terms and conditions). Third page is
> dynamic, etc. These are contracts we need to print, not reports that
> show more than 1 record.
>
> Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. ANY solution that you
> think would work, even if there's a way to do this with generic HTML
> somehow I am not aware of.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and effort!
iText is a free PDF library:
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
Some examples of the possibilities here:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/
The authors also have ported it to C#:
http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/
HTH - keith
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