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AlivePDF - result displays request instead of Title of PDF

CarmenDurham — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:54:40 GMT

Hello all,

I am using AlivePDF and have the resulting document displaying the content with no problems.

But the tab in IE displays: "http://myserver/createPDF/create.aspx?name=AddressReport.pdf&method=inline"
instead of something like Address Report.

What/where can I change it so that the tab will read "Address Report" or AddressReport.pdf? Also, when I try a "file/Save As", it wants to save the file to "create.pdf" instead of "AddressReport.pdf"

Any ideas? I tried a couple of things in the .mxml (.setTitle for the PDF) and in the createPDF app folder, but they didn't work.

Thanks,
Carmen

Re: AlivePDF - result displays request instead of Title of PDF

LeonScott — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:09:46 GMT

Carmen,

In your .aspx page, you can put this line of code in the Page_Load function...

Page.Title = "Address Report"

to change the tab in IE. This worked for me.

I noticed the default name of the pdf will be the same as the name of your .aspx page. Mine has a default name of "default". So you could rename your page to AddressReport.aspx, as a work around. I haven't figured out another way to do that.

Leon

Re: AlivePDF - result displays request instead of Title of PDF

CarmenDurham — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:44:03 GMT

Leon,

Thank you for responding.

I renamed the .aspx and aspx.cs so that at least the "save as" works a little better per your suggestion.

I have added Page.Title = "Address Results" to the Page_Load event, but it still doesn't work. I tried various locations. Here is what my page_load event looks like. Will you please compare it with yours? I have even tried setting name="Address Results".

Also, what version of AlivePdf are you using? I have 1.4.9.

   protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
                Page.Title = "Address Search";
                string method = Request.QueryString["method"];
     string name = Request.QueryString["name"];

     byte[] data = Request.BinaryRead(Request.TotalBytes);

     Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
     Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", data.Length.ToString());
     Response.AddHeader("Content-disposition", method + "; filename=" + name);
     Response.BinaryWrite(data);
     Response.End();
    }
}

I know very little about asp.net so if I am missing something obvious, I apologize.

Thanks,
Carmen

Re: AlivePDF - result displays request instead of Title of PDF

LeonScott — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:43:06 GMT

Hi Carmen,

You're not missing anything obvious... This acted a little quirky when I made the change. I guess it wasn't just me. The change to the page title didn't seem to want to take for me either, as I thought it should. I found this worked..... Comment everything out except your Page.Title = "Address Search" line and recompile. Test it out to see if the IE tab changed like you would expect. Then go back uncomment your code and recompile again. I know its weird, but I stumbled upon this and it did the trick.

Leon

Re: AlivePDF - result displays request instead of Title of PDF

CarmenDurham — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:22 GMT

Leon,

That's funny because, yesterday, I did try part of what you said (commenting out everything and seeing if I just got a blank page with the real name I wanted) and it did work. I'll try actually recompiling in VS and placing it back on the server and seeing if that works.

I guess there is some comfort (??) in knowing the quirks are not just me.

Thanks,
Carmen

Re: AlivePDF - result displays request instead of Title of PDF

ZhujingXia — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:23:10 GMT

Hi,
I am new to this thread. I used alive PDF in flex API 1.3. Now I need to upgrade to flex api 2.4. Do you know this alive PDF would work with flex api 2.4 or not?

Thanks

Zhujing
Zhujingx@co.rockland.ny.us