I have a requirement to display word document in ASP.NET form. Also, the original word format has to be retained. In a nutshell i have to embed a word document in a web form programatically. Can someone please help.
If all the clients that are browsing the site are going to have Word installed and use Internet Explorer, you could embed it with an ActiveX object. If these requirements are not met you might need to convert it to some more standard format that a browser is capable of displaying such as a jpeg image. You may also look at this option.
There are html embed tag options to embed pdfs into the html page. So probably you need to convert the doc into pdf before.
Check here. http://blog.flashcolony.com/?p=244
This works for me. But may need newer versions of Adobe Reader.
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I want to use "OLE automation" (or whatever it's called now) to generate a Word document.
I assume that it's possible to perform the following programmatically:
Set page size (height, width, margin vals)
Set font type/name, style, and size
Add page numbering
Add pages
Insert page breaks
What I'm not sure of is if I need to have MS Word on my system to do this (to have the necessary DLLs, perhaps)? I use Open Office (I like it, and it's free), but I reckon controlling the creation of docs programmatically is probably easier/better documented for MS Word than it is for Open Office and/or Libre Office - that's why I'm strongly considering making this "rendezvous with Redmond."
This question is tangentially related to this one
If Google Docs is a possibility here, I'd be willing to have a "meeting with Mountain View" but I know nothing about that file format or whether it can be "automated" etc.
I need to end up with something that I can either convert to a PDF file or a DOCX file. Open Office can open DOCX and convert files to PDF, but I don't know about Google Docs.
I've found https://docx.codeplex.com/ to be very useful in dynamically building docx documents.
Yes,
it is possible. Check this link: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30425
this is a library for open xml documents (*.docx, *.xlsx and powerpoint files)
yes you can Use Openxml , also with openXml you can create Excel Pdf and ...
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You can use this library to generate document by template:
https://github.com/StasClick/DocumentGenerator
'DocumentGenerator' can generate one leaflet, multiple leaflets in one document or registers.
I'm looking for an asp.NET control that will allow for viewing and printing of a pdf and TIFF within a web form. I'm willing to use more than 1 control if needed (1 control for pdf, 1 for Tiff, show and hide based on file extension), but I have not been able to find a good Tiff viewer.
Files are stored on our LAN in a shared folder, and this application is an intranet site.
Open source / free licensing preferred, but I'm willing to look at paid options as well.
http://www.alternatiff.com/ is one of the viewers that I've seen used for this type of viewing of tiffs.
You can get a free licence of ABCPDF (provided you link back to their site) which will do the conversion from TIFF to PDF for you as per #Chris Lively 's suggestion.
It'll also do conversion from PDF to TIFF if you decide to do things backwards.
It makes sense to present the content in a common format. If you wanted to you can embed the PDF in the browser to create the 'seamless' experience you're looking for using something like PDFObject.
As #BenCr says though, PDF is a really common format and the tools already exist to open and work with them, so introducing new ways to perform existing tasks could actually end up complicating matters unnecessarily.
I'm in total agreement with #BenCr on this.
Viewing PDFs is an extremely common thing to do. This isn't a "technical" issue by any stretch.
It sounds like you have some type of faxing solution in place that is creating these documents. Most likely multi-page TIFF and PDFs.
If this is the case you might want to just convert the TIFFs to PDFs to begin with and run everything through Adobe's pdf reader. Every online fax solution does this.
You could try http://issuu.com/ and they appear to have a API too if you want to go that deep.
We used the the Seadragon control to do this. I think it was an overkill and we should have just rolled our own -- would have been cheaper than integrating it. TIFFs and PDFs are converted to PNG on the server side. I don't think you can do better than that, especially with PDFs (assuming you don't want to use Acrobat Reader to display them). Convert PDFs to PNG using Xpdf/Poppler.
How about using Google Docs Viewer?
EDIT: Probably not working, since the viewer has to read the document from your URL; when it's on the Intranet, this won't work.
If you can mess about with mime types -- mainly by making the .tiff files expose an application/pdf mimetype -- you should be able to get acrobat to open TIFF files directly by effectively fooling the browser to open TIFF files with acrobat. Then all you need is a trusty old iframe to get you familiar UI with print buttons.
Hi All,
I am creating a PDF document using ITEXTSHARP. I need to add some content to PDF toolbar while creating the PDF document. How can i achieve this using C#. Please see the attached image for reference.
Thanks in advance.
iTextSharp is used to generate PDF files, not modifying the PDF viewer. If you need to modify toolbars and stuff like this in Adobe Reader this definitely is not something that you could achieve with iTextSharp.
eh...
Ok so how to do it.
Make template in Word.
eg of Word
Name <FirstName>
Surname <LastName>
Job <JobType>
Salary <Salary>
When generating:
Open word and replace and other marks
Then makepdf (pdfcreator for example)
Edit:
Okay Ill show u schema, no ready code cuz little busy
1) Create word template and
store it in safe place. 2) Copy
template to temp folder 3) Open in
programicaly in C# and replace
"" with ur data
.Replace('', 'Voon') 4)
Programiticaly print to PDF and save
it.
Only a plugin can modify the acrobat/reader toolbar. There might be C# bindings for the acrobat API these days, but I wouldn't count on it.
PS: You can make Acrobat plugins for free. To "Reader Enable" a plugin requires Adobe's direct intervention, and $$$. They sign a version of the plugin, and only that signed version will run in Reader.
Your best bet is to go looking for some third-party PDF viewer. I still wouldn't count on this feature being available, but it's better odds than "0".
In my application I am using some templates in docx and pdf format. I am storing this docs to DB as Bytes.
Befor showing/sending this docs back to user or application I need to replace some contents inside the doc. eg:if the doc contain ##username## I need to replace this with the exact username of the customer. I am not getting a proper solution for this. Any good ideas?
For the docx file, your best bet is to use OpenXML, and instead of having special text like ##username##, replace it with a content control that you can fill in.
Since you specified docx, you can use OpenXML, which is great, it's an API. If it has to work with older doc files, then you'll have to automate Word (which should be avoided if at all possible).
For the PDF, your best bet is to create a PDF form, and fill it in a runtime (using a tool like itextsharp).
HTH,
Brian
For DOC / DOCX:
You should use the MSWord object model through MSWord assembly reference (will work only on machines which have msoffice installed.. or else you can use something like ASPOSE word libraries which wont need msoffice installation on server). You can programmatically trigger the Find-Replace context of word through the library's API.
For PDF: You will need a third party library for editing pdf files.. 3rd party libraries like ABCpdf are available.. (not sure whether Adobe itself has something for this)
The same mechanism like for word library.. but I am not sure whether you will be able to trigger the Find-replace context here or do something else... I have not used a pdf generation library.
I'm looking for a way to display a PDF (similar to a picture box), in a Windows Form. After that I need to be able to create a PDF. What's the best library for the job for creating the PDF (from simple text)? I've taken a look at several and I'm not sure which one is the best. Preferably open source. As for the control, I tried the COM object Adobe provides... I can't seem to get it working. At all. I've tried loading several files, there are no errors. It simply fails to load.
PDF Sharp, Sharp PDF and iTextSharp are excellent. They are all OpenSource.
To answer your question about getting the PDF to render, you could use a WebBrowser Control on your form as long as the client workstation has Adobe Reader installed. The browser will automatically pick up the MIME type and load the in-browser Adobe Reader.
For rendering, I echo Will Marcouiller and SLaks. We have had good success with PDFSharp.
For creating pdf's iTextSharp is very good, and it's free too.
I worked with SharpPDF and it did great job. And it's open source.