ASP .net PDF privew

Vinit,

 

Who is going to be viewing these PDFs before saving it to disk? Also, are you trying to prevent from saving on the client-side or server-side?

 

How are you generating the PDF? Is it some type of report?

 

Web browsers don't natively support PDF, although there are several plug-ins for browsers that support displaying PDF within the browser itself. If you are looking to prevent from having to save the PDF on the server & allow the client to point to a file there, perhaps the solution you are after is to convert PDF to a browser-native format like JPEG or PNG. This would allow the browser to display the preview without needing any plug-in or saving the PDF on the server-side. Such a conversion would require a service on the server-side or a rich-client for the user. Since you are developing in ASP.NET, a service likely makes more sense.

 

I did a quick Google search and came across this solution dealing with multi-page PDFs and displaying them with an HTML5 viewer. This might be along the lines of what you're looking for.