Constructor form (string- string)

Aspose.PDF Product Family
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Is there a way to use a relative url in the file name string, rather than an absolute location on the hard drive?

For example, I’d rather use:

dim pdf as Form = new Form ("…/RootDirectory/pdf/source.pdf", “…/RootDirectory/pdf/destination.pdf”)

than:

dim pdf as Form = new Form (“c:\inetpub\wwwroot\RootDirectory\pdf\source.pdf”, “c:\inetpub\wwwroot\RootDirectory\pdf\destination.pdf”)

Thanks,
Greg

2

Dear gsheff,

Thanks for considering Aspose.

Yes, using the relative url is also ok.

Best regards.

3

I cannot make a relative path work successfully. When I use the following constructor:

dim pdf as Form = new Form ("/LocalDomain/source.pdf", “/LocalDomain/destination.pdf”)

I get the following error:
/LocalDomain/source.pdf not found as file or resource

I have tried various permutations on the relative path( eg ‘…/LocalDomain/source.pdf’, ‘/source.pdf’, etc.) with no success.

The absolute path (“c:\inetpub\LocalDomain\source.pdf”) works, as does the following command:
response.Redirect ("/LocalDomain/source.pdf")
so I know that the file exists and the relative path I am using is correct.

Any suggestions?
Greg

4

Dear Greg,

Is the /LocalDomain is the sub directory of your project path? If so,You just omit a dot before you path.

You can change it just like this:
response.Redirect ("./LocalDomain/source.pdf")

…/ means the parent path of your project.

Try it and if having any other problem please post it.

Best regards.

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LocalDomain is the parent directory of the project.

Response.Redirect works as either:

Response.Redirect ("/LocalDomain/source.pdf")
or
Response.Redirect ("…/LocalDomain/source.pdf")
or
Response.Redirect (“source.pdf”)

The Aspose Form constructor works with none of these variations.

Any ideas?
Greg

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Dear Greg,

I have tested it just now.

…\ is ok. It means jump to the up path of the curent project.
And all the / should changed to \ , then it is ok.

Best regards.

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I still am having no success.

I was suprised to see you suggest that I should use a backslash in a relative path. I’m used to using forward slashes in relative paths and backslashes in absolute paths. I thought this might have been my problem, but had no luck after making the changes. I’ve tried multiple possible ways of pointing to the file. As I said before, all of these ways work fine for a non-aspose command (e.g. response.redirect), but when I cut and paste the relative path from response.redirect into the form constructor, I get a “not found as file or resource” error.

You mentioned that you have tested this succesfully. Can you post the exact constructor you used successfully?

Thanks,
Greg

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Dear Greg,

Thank you for considering Aspose.

I have tested this issue and found the relative path can work in Windows app but can’t work in Web app. I suggest that you modify your code as the following:

string path = MapPath(".");
string file = path + (your relative file path);

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This solves my problem. I was working on a web app.

Thank you,
Greg