easyPDF SDK: Sample Code and Applications

Dynamic HTML to PDF Conversion and Manipulation

Description: Building a Web application that will:

grab 2 URLs/Web pages,
convert them into PDF files,
merge the resulted PDFs into a single PDF file,
convert the merged PDF file to text file, and
provide the links to the PDF and text file.

Language: ASP
Requirements: To properly run easyPDF SDK in ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, or Cold Fusion server environment, you need to read our Getting Started FAQ

Please create 2 asp files: form.asp and easypdf.asp. Then copy and paste these following codes into the corresponding files.

========= form.asp ================

<html> <head> <title> easyPDF SDK ASP demo</title> </head> <body> <H2>This demo will do the following:<br></h2> <font color=#0033cc> 1. Grab 2 URLs/Web pages. <br> 2. Convert them into PDF files.<br> 3. Merge the resulted PDFs into a single PDF file.<br> 4. Convert the merged PDF file to text file.<br> 5. Provide the links to the PDF and text file.<P> </font> <h3>Please enter 2 URLs below</h3> <FORM action="./easypdf.asp" method= "post"> Web Page 1: <input type="text" value="http://www.google.com" name="inURL1"><br> Web Page 2: <input type="text" value="http://www.bcltechnologies.com" name="inURL2"><br><br> <input type=submit> </FORM> </body> </html>

========= easypdf.asp ================

<%@ Language=VBScript %> <% Option Explicit Dim oLoader Dim oPrinter Dim oPrintJob Dim oPDFProcessor Dim inUrl1, inUrl2 Dim fs, f inUrl1 = Request.Form("inUrl1") inUrl2 = Request.Form("inUrl2") ' For ASP, instead of getting the Printer object directly, ' get it through the easyPDF SDK Loader object. Set oLoader = Server.CreateObject("easyPDF.Loader.5") Set oPDFProcessor = oLoader.LoadObject("easyPDF.PDFProcessor.5") ' get the printer and printjob objects Set oPrinter = oLoader.LoadObject("easyPDF.Printer.5") Set oPrintJob = oPrinter.IEPrintJob On Error Resume Next ' Convert to PDF. Call oPrintJob.PrintOut(inUrl1, Server.MapPath("./output1.pdf")) Call oPrintJob.PrintOut(inUrl2, Server.MapPath("./output2.pdf")) 'Merge the 2 PDFs Call oPDFProcessor.Merge(Server.MapPath("./output1.pdf"), Server.MapPath("./output2.pdf"), Server.MapPath("./merged.pdf")) 'Extract pdf as text file Call oPDFProcessor.ExtractText(Server.MapPath("./merged.pdf"), Server.MapPath("./merged.txt")) If Err Then Response.Write("<B>Failed!</B> " + Err.Description + "<BR>") Response.Write("Conversion Result: " + oPrintJob.ConversionResultMessage + "<BR>") Response.Write("Printer Result: " + oPrintJob.PrinterResultMessage + "<BR>") Response.End End If Response.Write("<B>Success!</B><BR>") Response.Write("Below is the merged PDF result: <BR>") %> <A href="./merged.pdf">merged PDF</A><br> <A href="./merged.txt">merged txt</A><br>

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