Hi, I'm a designer working with my ASP programmer. I'm trying to help my programmer find a solution to the following issue:

1 -- We are building a website where people fill out online forms in order to create legal documents.

2 -- The forms are submitted to the server.

3 -- At the server, the information entered into the forms, such as the person's name, etc, is inserted into the legal document templates. The completed documents are then checked by an administrator.

4 -- After the documents are checked, the adminstrator submits the completed documents back to the front end of the website where the customer prints it out.

5 -- However, we want to send the final document as a PDF.

So the question is, can someone suggest the best way to convert our completed documents to PDF? My programmer and I realize we'll probably have to install some program to do this onto the server. We're just not sure what will work best. All suggestions welcome.

Thanks very much

there are a few PDF writers with asp interfaces.

Google Search

Thnx, Chris. Actually I've done several Google searches, and they're so many products, I just thought someone could recommend something easy, reliable, and preferably free. Cheers

You'll be hard pressed to find a free PDF Creation utility that doesn't suck...

We have a facility on our site to e-mail PDF invoices to people when they place an order. The invoice is a report file created in Crystal Reports. When somebody places an order, we use the ASP.NET Crystal API to run the report passing the order ID as parameter, and specifying the export format as PDF. The PDF is then saved and e-mailed.

This works a treat if you already have access to Crystal Reports, the downside being Crystal has to be installed on the server...

Thank you, Minaki. I'll check it out.