hi all,

I am creating the reports in my web application using aspx page and datagrid control. This can be a multipage report. I want to print this report to PDF file.

Can anybody suggest how to do it. I have already tried many tools. and I don't want to buy any third part component for the conversion.

Is there any way to convert web page into pdf file.

Alternatively I would like know whether I can create a print preview of the web page and print it. if there is no way to convert web page to pdf file.

Unless you understand how to progmatically create a PDF file you are going ot have to puchase a 3rd party component.

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I heard of printer drivers which directly print any document to PDF file. If you know such driver that will also do. The main problem is I am using datagrid for displaying the report and the datagrid has multiple pages. before printing this report from the web I want to display the user all the records in the datagrid.

Like in print preview of internet explorer we can see the total pages and can browse through the pages before printing. I want to create that effect. Is there any other method to atleast create print preview of the html page???

You can export the entire datagrid to word and present the user with a word document, but there is no real way to present a print preview. (About the only way you could do this would be to spawn a Javascript window that has no tool bars, etc and just display the information of the report and even that is only so accurate because of margins and such)

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I have already tried that. But In word the table borders do not look good. event if you set border style equal to none the borders of the grid gets displayed which do not look good.

I thought of another way but don't know how to implement it. Can we access Internet explorer as object and call it's print preview functionality throgh coding. If this can be done, that will be the best solution. Also I want to manipulate the header and footer that bydefault gets displayed. but that is on least priority.

I dont *think* its possible to access IE as an object and call its print preview function, even if it could be though what would happen if I came to this site on, say, Firefox?

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