ASP to PDF dilemma

Hi All

As I'm a 'one man bander', I'm really pushed to grab good projects from the
big boys, but I've finally managed to get my foot in the door for a project
which could be a good one and I've reached an almighty stumbling block.

The company that I'm trying to get in with has an established web site and
have fallen out with the current developers. I've said that I can take it
on only to find that although 99% of the site is classic ASP and SQL Server
DB, the crucial 1% is an ASP.net component that creates PDF docs from data
in their DB and images in a pre-designated folder. I found that the
excellent Persits has an ASP 2 PDF component that works in both classic ASP
and ASP.net, but my problem is that my current ISP won't install this
component and doesn't have any alternative.

My immediate thought to this problem was that I could get hold of another
ISP that does have a ASP to PDF component, set up an account with them and
then do a frameset 'cludge' (needed so that I can show that the addressbar
is still in the current web site) to point the result set to a small ASP web
site on the new ISP to create the PDF in a new window.

My problem is, do you know of any cheap ASP hosts that provide this ASP to
PDF facility?

Thanks

Laphan

Re: ASP to PDF dilemma

On Mon, 2 May 2005 14:21:42 +0100, "Laphan" wrote:

>As I'm a 'one man bander', I'm really pushed to grab good projects from the
>big boys, but I've finally managed to get my foot in the door for a project
>which could be a good one and I've reached an almighty stumbling block.
>
>The company that I'm trying to get in with has an established web site and
>have fallen out with the current developers. I've said that I can take it
>on only to find that although 99% of the site is classic ASP and SQL Server
>DB, the crucial 1% is an ASP.net component that creates PDF docs from data
>in their DB and images in a pre-designated folder. I found that the
>excellent Persits has an ASP 2 PDF component that works in both classic ASP
>and ASP.net, but my problem is that my current ISP won't install this
>component and doesn't have any alternative.
>
>My immediate thought to this problem was that I could get hold of another
>ISP that does have a ASP to PDF component, set up an account with them and
>then do a frameset 'cludge' (needed so that I can show that the addressbar
>is still in the current web site) to point the result set to a small ASP web
>site on the new ISP to create the PDF in a new window.
>
>My problem is, do you know of any cheap ASP hosts that provide this ASP to
>PDF facility?

There is so much wrong with this post from a business sense that I
won't comment on. As for cheap hosts, you can do your own research
there, many will allow the installation of components as well. As an
alternative, you could check PlanetPDF and other PDF sites for PDF
creation options that may not cause problems on your current cheap
host.

Jeff