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I am currently using your ASPXToPDF Product and was wondering if there is any way to get the pdf as a byte array in memory rather than rendering it to the browser every time. I need to convert it to a byte() so I can BLOB it into a database.
The only thing that I see in the documentation is the RenderAsPDF Sub that will render it to browser. It would be nice if there was a GetBytes() function or something similar to that.
Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Adam
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Hi, You can do that by handling AfterRender event and then save the result PdfDocument to a MemoryStream. You would then call the MemoryStream object's ToArray method to get your byte array. You can find detailed steps and sample code here: http://www.essentialobjects.com/doc/4/web/aspxtopdf.aspxLook for "Save Conversion Result into a File" section. The sample code saves the result PDF document into a file. You would need just change the file name argument (which is a string) to a MemoryStream object. This would call another overloaded version of the Save method and save the result into your MemoryStream. Hope this helps. Please feel free to let us know if you still have any questions. Thanks!
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That is pretty slick. I figured you had something like that. Thanks a lot for you help and your prompt reply. Here is a little code snippet for anyone else that has this issue.
Code: Visual Basic.NET
Private Sub atpForm_AfterRender(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles atpForm.AfterRender
Dim result As HtmlToPdfResult = CType(atpForm.Result, HtmlToPdfResult)
Dim ms As IO.MemoryStream = New IO.MemoryStream
result.PdfDocument.Save(ms)
Dim bPDFBytes As Byte() = ms.ToArray
End Sub
Thanks again! Adam
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Glad to hear that you got it working. Thanks for sharing!
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