Has anyone in the community used a product or service to dynamically create PDFs on the fly for DNN. I'm looking to have a couple modules on a page and an icon/skin object that creates a templated pdf of the page by pulling in some of the modules content (not some of the content but some of the modules). Anyone have any success with this type of scenario.

Thanks

I have used (and continue to use) DynamicPDF for creating and merging PDFs on the fly in DNN and other applications as well.  Pretty powerful library they have there but to be honest I haven't tried many others (I have tried a couple that I thought were like pulling teeth getting to work but I can't remember which ones off the top of my head).

I tend to use the "merge" approach by creating a template and then just merging it into a new PDF with the details filled in.  No reason why you couldn't create completely new PDF on the fly with DynamicPDF though -- just depends which products you end up getting from them; I have the entire enterprise library but don't use most of it.

I haven't actually used it to "print" an entire page but in theory I could see it working.  Mine is used as a custom module that receives input from a PDF post (which posts as XFDF) and then I parse the post and merge it to a PDF then email and/or return the merged PDF.

To print an entire page I could see it as a separate skin object or module that would effectively make a request against the same page and then "screen-scrape" the resulting HTML into a PDF.  The same technique could be applied against a module in "print" mode.

You could even intercept the HTML just before returning to the client (techniques mentioned in these articles: here, here, here (scroll to the comments listed 1/28/2008 3:26 PM  sambarta).  Hopefully something like that will help.