Hi, I have a 2 part question on this: There are some sites on internet which are giving a way for downloading PDF files with code similar to Excel file download e.g. using Content disposition like this http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20011006.asp On this my question is, in SharePoint scenario can we achieve generating PDFs without installing or using any 3rd Party PDF generation tools? My next question, which PDF tool is suitable for rendering/flushing the whole page's content like a FileStream on to a page of the PDF document for generating the PDF? Hope my questions are clear. If any more information is required, I would be glad to elaborate further.BR, PM

you want to generate PDF document for a sharepoint web part page? or sharepoint word / excel document? If thst is the case, you will need 3rd party PDF generation tool.Moonis Tahir MVP, MCPD, MCSD.net, MCTS BizTalk 2006/SQL 2005/SharePoint Server 2007 (Dev & Config)

Hi Moonis, I am looking for PDF creation of a complete ASPX page in SharePoint and not looking for word /excel conversion into PDF. BR, PM

See this: http://www.muhimbi.com/blog/2009/04/using-pdf-converter-from-sharepoint.html or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1262717/sharepoint-list-to-pdf-report Hope this helps

Your issue is going to be that to create a PDF of a sharepoint page, it has to be rendered, essentially it also has to be called by an account that has access to the page in Sharepoint. A tool like abcpdf can convert remote URL's into PDF files in only a few lines of code. With some programming, you could easily create a way to convert your aspx output from a sharepoint page and upload it via webdav to any library. Regards John Timney http://www.johntimney.com/blog

John, Many thanks for your response. I am aware of the way you are telling for generating the PDF. What is confusing is so many of those PDF api's, I used one from CeTe PDF for .Net but it is not having a way to put the stream of SPFile on the PDF. That is something I am looking for i.e. to render the contents of an ASPX taken in an SPFile on to a PDF. Hope you got my problem/requirement.BR, PM

Well not being a Sharepoint programmer (much), I can't help you with your API questions, but you could try one of the dev groups. I would hazard a guess that SPFile does not contain all you require anyway to actually create a PDF of a rendered page, give a typical MOSS page makes multiple calls to the MOSS server to get its javascript, css, images etc once the undlying output is sent to the browser for rendering - you might need multiple SPFile objects. I would solve the problem of obtaining a PDF of the rendered page first, and then build a solution around that approach. http://www.websupergoo.com/abcpdf-5.htm is .NET library, it can be given a URL to output a PDF locally - that way your already half-way there, and i think its free. Otherwise, perhaps one of the DEV groups is a better place to get this resolved. Regards John Timney http://www.johntimney.com/blog

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