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Add ‘Print to PDF’ functionality to your Website
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Ensuring precise layout of an HTML document can be a nightmare, especially when printing. PDF guarantees pixel-perfect layout every time as what you see is what you print.

Ensuring precise layout of an HTML document can be a nightmare, especially when printing. PDF guarantees pixel-perfect layout every time as what you see is what you print. PDF also offers built-in security features not available in HTML files that afford businesses full control over confidential information when transferring or storing PDF documents on the web. Additionally, users can easily save PDF files to their own computer and be assured of exact replication.

So how would you like to add PDF creation capabilities to your website or intranet/extranet? Now you can provide site users with the ability to create PDF versions of your web pages using activePDF WebGrabber. activePDF WebGrabber allows you to dynamically convert any URL, HTML stream, or HTML file to PDF on the fly, while maintaining embedded styles.
 

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This example demonstrates:
  - Conversion of an existing webpage to PDF
  - Redirection of the PDF to the browser
  - Changing the output directory
  - Controlling the PDF output name


* Source code for this example available here      
Download the ZIP file from the above link, extract to a new directory, and then double-click the Setup.vbs file. View readme.txt for details of the installation.


* Free trial versions of activePDF Server and WebGrabber are available for download here (this is required in order to test this example). 

 




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