PDF Generation Question

[Nelson]

Hello,

After poking around in various Telerik APIs (specifically, WinForms and ASP.NET Ajax) I noticed there is a Telerik.PDF namespace. I'm not sure to what extent Telerik supports generation of PDF documents, but let me elaborate on my situation and hopefully someone can indicate whether Telerik controls can be used to find a resolution.

Essentially, on our website, we have web pages that replicate paper applications a user might fill out physically. We'd like to automate the process so that they can basically fill out a virtual application. A requirement of our customers, however, is that we need to generate a copy of the application, as they always had the original in the past. The first thought was to generate a PDF of the filled out 'virtual document' however this is proving to be extremely difficult due to the nature of generating a PDF from a web page in general. We do not require the PDF to replicate the controls on the web page, simply the layout; even if this is a flat image. In fact, a flat image may even be prefereable.

I noticed the RadGrid has export to PDF functionality built in. I am wondering if:

A) Has anyone generated PDFs from webpages? With Telerik?

- or -

B) Is there enough functionality in the Telerik.PDF namespace to engineer this solution myself if need be?

Lastly, if neither of these is true (which would be somewhat unfortunate) is a web PDF snapshot generator in the works at all?

Thanks,
Nelson

[Daniel]

Hello Nelson,

Telerik.PDF namespace is used internally for generating PDF files. Due to limitations in this code we do not provide support for it when used outside of our controls.
In fact, there is an easy way to export the desired custom HTML layout using an empty RadGrid.
Please refer to the attached example.

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[GK]

Hi Telerik Team,

Will you please help me out in these two following issues. I am using Telerik licenced version 2010.3.1109.20, with I.E 8.0
1. How to save directly to file by export to pdf feature of RadGrid, in a specified path. 
2. When I try to export my grid(which is having 15 columns) then it exports only first few columns, not all columns are exported to pdf,  so, how to export all my columns and rows(or complete grid data) into pdf and automatically save at specified path.


Thanks
Gopi Krishna

[Daniel]

Hello Gopi,

Straight onto your questions:

1) Please check the attached demo. Note that you can save the file on the server, and not on the client.

2) I recommend that you examine the PDF export Q&A section in the help topic below:
PDF export

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[GK]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your reply, I could solve both the issues, but I could not justify the columns to right in pdf, below is my code which i am using.

protected void grdContribution_Prerender(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        foreach (GridColumn col in grdContribution.MasterTableView.Columns)
            {
                col.ItemStyle.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Right;
            }
    }

protected void RadGrid1_GridExporting(object source, GridExportingArgs e)
    {
            foreach (GridColumn col in grdContribution.MasterTableView.Columns)
            {
                col.ItemStyle.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Right;
            }
}

I have even given in aspx page and tried, but still in my pdf, the columns are left just justified and the header columns are right justified.

waiting for your early reply.

Thanks
Gopi Krishna

 

[Daniel]

Hello Gopi,

You should use inline styles in order to change the text alignment. You can see this approach in action on our online demo:
Export to PDF

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

[GK]

Thanks Daniel, now I could able to right justify my columns in pdf.

Thanks
Gopi Krishna