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

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

Hi Jeremy,

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

Thanks
James

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

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