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Re: Websupergoo AbcPDF on discountasp.net AddImageUrl not supported

qvo178 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:11:24 GMT

This error message really frustrate me after spending many hours finally I got it working thank god.

Basicall you can set the localhost url and it will works just fine. Check out how to do it here.

http://itjungles.com/dotnet/abc2pdf-unable-to-render-html

Re: Websupergoo AbcPDF on discountasp.net AddImageUrl not supported

fizzystutter — Fri, 11 May 2007 11:08:24 GMT

Hi,

Just tried the webrequest but obviously all I get back is the html, which would be ok in other scenarios, but in this one, the code isn't rendered so all I get on the pdf is the source code.

I'm just looking through the abcpdf documentation to see if there is a way of rendering the code once it has been passed.

Both the AddHtml and AddImageHtml functions have been disabled by discountasp.net

Thanks
James

Re: Websupergoo AbcPDF on discountasp.net AddImageUrl not supported

fizzystutter — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:31:33 GMT

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for that, I'll take a look over the weekend.

Thanks
James

Re: Websupergoo AbcPDF on discountasp.net AddImageUrl not supported

jeremyh — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:25:41 GMT

Use System.Net namespace - WebRequest to get the page and then pass the data into the pdf function.

Websupergoo AbcPDF on discountasp.net AddImageUrl not supported

fizzystutter — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:45:51 GMT

Hi,

I have my hosting with discountasp.net and want to be able to pass a url in the pdf object.

I've just found out that for security reasons:

"the AddImage is not supported on our server, for more information, please see our kb article at:

http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10293"

This means that my reporting feature won't work now.

I contacted websupergoo about this and there response was:

"ABCpdf uses the Microsoft MSHTML component (installed with Internet Explorer) to process HTML. If your host has prevented MSHTML from accessing the Internet, perhaps it would be possible to access a URL based on the IP address of your server, a "localhost://" or "file://" format URL."

Can anybody shed any light on this ?

I have the IP address of the server and my code at the moment is as follows:

Dim varFileName = "../System/LoggedIn/CreatedTextFiles/" & DateTime.Now.ToString("mmssffffff") & ".pdf"

Dim theDoc As Doc = New Doc()
theDoc.Rect.Inset(72, 144)

        Dim theID As Integer
        theID = theDoc.AddImageUrl("http://ufs.thefrogsystem.com/ufs/Default.aspx")

        theDoc.Color.String = "0 0 0 "
        theDoc.FontSize = 50
        theDoc.AddText(DateTime.Now)

        While True
            theDoc.FrameRect()
            If Not theDoc.Chainable(theID) Then
                Exit While
            End If
            theDoc.Page = theDoc.AddPage()
            theID = theDoc.AddImageToChain(theID)
        End While

        Dim i As Integer
        For i = 1 To theDoc.PageCount
            theDoc.PageNumber = i
            theDoc.Flatten()
        Next

theDoc.Save(Server.MapPath(varFileName))
theDoc.Clear()

PDFLink.NavigateUrl = varFileName
PDFLink.Target = "_Blank"

Thanks
James