Creating PDF from RPT file in Classic ASP - crystal-reports

I have a windows 2008 application server that hosts a web application built in classic asp. i have a crystal report server which is a windows 2008 server. both are on the same network.
I want to create pdf file from rpt file in the application server. Is there a way to do this without installing crystal reports on the application server?
-Vivek


This requires a bit more thinking but in theory you could do something like this:
Classic ASP is not able to work with Crystal Reports (as far as I know)
However, your IIS7 is able to handle both ASP.NET and Classic ASP
You could develop a service in .NET that does the conversion for you
This could work on your application server utilizinig the Crystal redistributable runtime libraries
Like I said this is just a theory. Give it some thought and if you run into any trouble let me know...


I don't know nothing about Crystal Reports Server, but surely there a way to tell the server to process a file and generate a PDF. You can then pick up the file from the other server.


you can use crystal reports from classic asp but you have to use the crystal reports dlls on your application server (where asp is executed)
dim oApp : set oApp = Server.CreateObject("CrystalRuntime.Application.10")
and so on...

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