problem downloading pdf on ie

Discussion in 'General troubleshooting' started by jacobgold, May 22, 2012.

  1. hi

    i'm working on a website that i allow the user to enter a name and then press a button that prompts the server to setup a pdf acording to the info the user entered and then send the pdf to the user

    i'm testing the website on my leptop without iis

    i needed the pdf to be hebrew and i didn't found a pdfwrite with vb on hebrew so i write to word and then convert to pdf like the following code

    this works fine on firefox chrome safari but on internet explorer the page disconnect before the download it disconnect when the create word statement is executed
    can anyone help me with that ?

    Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    Dim strname As String
    strname = TextBox1.Text.Trim

    Dim oword As New word.Application
    Dim odoc As New word.Document
    oword = CreateObject("word.Application")

    odoc = oword.Documents.Add("C:\documents\tamp.dotx")

    odoc.Bookmarks.Item("name1").Range.Text = strname
    odoc.Bookmarks.Item("name2").Range.Text = strname
    odoc.Bookmarks.Item("name3").Range.Text = strname
    odoc.Bookmarks.Item("name4").Range.Text = strname
    odoc.Bookmarks.Item("name5").Range.Text = strname
    odoc.Bookmarks.Item("name6").Range.Text = strname

    odoc.ExportAsFixedFormat(Server.MapPath("\neshume.pdf"), 17)
    Response.Redirect(Server.MapPath("\neshume.pdf"))
     

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