Effective XPS and PDF Reports from WebGrid™ DataClick to see the WebGridDocumentExporter in Action

Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) and Microsoft®'s Extensible Paper Specification (XPS), an open XML document standard used by applications like Microsoft Office® 2007, together constitute a major share of the electronic documents exchanged between information workers today, and this trend can only grow as tens of millions of new clients capable of working in these formats are installed around the globe each year.

Adding the WebGridDocumentExporter™ control to your ASP.NET application increases collaboration by letting your users share documents generated from WebGrid™ data in these widely supported formats. It takes only a single method call to produce professional-quality XPS and PDF reports. Selectively export data rows, headers and summaries by handling any of a comprehensive set of events that allow you to control the export process.

Building on top of the Infragistics.Documents export engine and its extensive object model permits WebGridDocumentExporter to reuse many of its graphics and layout features, as well as settings specific to PDF and XPS document formats, so you can leverage your knowledge of that library to accomplish more advanced tasks with the exporter component such as exporting grid data in separate sections of a PDF report.

 

Features at a Glance

  • Instant Exports - Write PDF and XPS files containing grid data with as little as one method call.
  • Event-Driven Export Control - WebGridDocumentExporter events allow customization of exported data before any row, column or cell is rendered to the document.
  • Application Styling - WebGrid controls using the Application Styling Framework™ (ASF) export with hi-fidelity styles read from the style set's CSS style sheet in tact (appearances from CSS style sheets external to ASF are not exported) and mapped to the rich formatting features of XPS and PDF file formats.
  • Widely Supported Formats - An install base of client applications conversant in these standard formats that's growing by tens of millions per year assures your users of their documents mainstream acceptance and portability.