Questions about pdf exports

[Ed]

Hi,


I am doing some works with RadGrid to export pdf format, have questions:
(1) Is there a way to output graphics in pdf's header area? I tried to use html img tag  in PageTitle property without success
(2) Is there a way to output "Page x of y"? I would prefer to output this into footer area.
(3) I can not get rid of page margins on header and footer areas no matter what values I set PageTopMargin and PageBottomMargin properties to. PageRightMargin and PageLeftMargin seem to function well.

TIA

[Princy]

Hello Ed,

Straight to your questions.

1) To set graphics in pdf's header area you can go through the following demo.
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/generalfeatures/pdfexport/defaultcs.aspx

2) As far as my knowledge it is not possible to export page numbers while exporting to pdf. Check out the following forum discussion:
Need urgent help in PDF export

3) I have tried to set the PageTopMargin and PageBottomMargin in pdf export and it worked as expected.

ASPX:

<telerik:RadGrid ID="grid1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" AllowPaging="True"

          CellSpacing="0" GridLines="None" PageSize="3">

          <ExportSettings IgnorePaging="true" OpenInNewWindow="true">

              <Pdf PageHeight="210mm" PageWidth="297mm" PageTitle="Employee Details" DefaultFontFamily="Arial Unicode MS"

                  PageBottomMargin="10mm" PageTopMargin="100mm" PageLeftMargin="20mm" PageRightMargin="20mm" />

          </ExportSettings>
</telerik:RadGrid>

Here is the screenshot with different top and bottom margins.

Thanks,
Princy.

[Ed]

About your answer:
(1) The demo at: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/grid/examples/generalfeatures/pdfexport/defaultcs.aspx,
does not use header to output graphics, instead graphics is part of the grid, which is fine if there is a way completely get rid of header.
(3) I want to get rid of header, not enlarge it. Try this:

<telerik:RadGrid ID="grid1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" AllowPaging="True"
          CellSpacing="0" GridLines="None" PageSize="3">
          <ExportSettings IgnorePaging="true" OpenInNewWindow="true">
              <Pdf PageHeight="8.5in" PageWidth="11in" PageTitle="Employee Details" DefaultFontFamily="Arial Unicode MS"
                  PageBottomMargin="0.1in" PageTopMargin="0.1in" PageLeftMargin="0.1in" PageRightMargin="0.1in" />
          </ExportSettings>
</telerik:RadGrid>

The left and right margins will be narrowed to about 0.1 inch as expected, but header and footer remain the same to about 1 inch

[Ed]

Does anyone know how to get rid of pdf header and footer in this case, I've been working on this for 1 week, when I showed it to my boss, he immediately said get rid of header and footer. It's wasting a lot of spaces,  on a letter paper landscape mode, height is only 8.5 inch, with header and footer, there is only 6.5 inch left .

Thanks again

[Princy]

Hello Ed,

You can set the PageBottomMargin and PageTopMargin  as "0" that worked as expected at my end.

Thanks,
Princy.

[Daniel]

Hello Ed,

You can find all PDF-specific properties listed in the following link:
PDF export

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team