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PDF to JPG conversion
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ousoonerjoe
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Are you wanting to do this conversion on the fly or prior to publishing? JPG does not support multi-page documents. You will need to convert to TIFF for that. If you are doing the conversion up front. You should be able to convert to TIFF, then it should be much easier to convert each page of the TIFF to a JPG. (TIFF and JPG are very similar in format).
I know you don't want to hear about 3rd party controls, but the VideoSoft Image Viewer (for VB6) was very useful in allowing us to convert PDF to TIFF and vise versa. It was the only control at the time that supported multi-page TIFFs without busting the company's budget.
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
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I know you don't want to hear about 3rd party controls, but the VideoSoft Image Viewer (for VB6) was very useful in allowing us to convert PDF to TIFF and vise versa. It was the only control at the time that supported multi-page TIFFs without busting the company's budget.
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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I am creating the content on the fly and then sending it to the browser at this time, but PDF has to have a file cached on the local drive to present so the solution that was suggested was to create a image file and present it in the browser. Tiff would be a fine format since this is a multi page document, but the process of getting third party controls and open source approved is long and tedious so I was trying to avoid that option.
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ousoonerjoe
Programmer
ok... i see what you're running into.
Is the data coming from a database? That way you could use SSRS or Crystal to display the data. You can also control whether or not the viewer of the report is allowed to save the document locally. SSRS comes with SQL Server 2005, and Crystal's Server Services used to come with a licensed copy of the Dev Edition. That way you could completely bypass the PDF to Image issue all together. it would also allow you to create on the fly as needed. Since they are already server services all you need to do is add a link to the report on your website. Sounds like you already have security implemented on your web services, so adding for reports shouldn't be too much more.
Anything more would be beyond my scope, and would need others' input on how to accomplish the task.
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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Is the data coming from a database? That way you could use SSRS or Crystal to display the data. You can also control whether or not the viewer of the report is allowed to save the document locally. SSRS comes with SQL Server 2005, and Crystal's Server Services used to come with a licensed copy of the Dev Edition. That way you could completely bypass the PDF to Image issue all together. it would also allow you to create on the fly as needed. Since they are already server services all you need to do is add a link to the report on your website. Sounds like you already have security implemented on your web services, so adding for reports shouldn't be too much more.
Anything more would be beyond my scope, and would need others' input on how to accomplish the task.
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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ousoonerjoe
Programmer
Not sure of the format you are needing, but most are fairly simple to recreate in both SSRS and Crystal Reports.
There is another option. Looking through Google, I found this on Experts-Exchange.com. You can get there from Google by searching "saving pdf as jpg in VB.Net". It was the first item in the results. (If you have an account there, you can just follow this link: How to convert PDF to JPG within VB.Net)
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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There is another option. Looking through Google, I found this on Experts-Exchange.com. You can get there from Google by searching "saving pdf as jpg in VB.Net". It was the first item in the results. (If you have an account there, you can just follow this link: How to convert PDF to JPG within VB.Net)
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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ousoonerjoe
Programmer
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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ousoonerjoe
Programmer
If you follow the Google link and scroll all the way down past the adds, you'll see the solutions.
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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"...and did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!"
"Don't stop him. He's roll'n."
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