One solution would be to pick one of those and then write a thin wrapper around that in C. As this answer showed, the W3C standard css-break-3 will solve the problem It is a Candidate Recommendation with plan to turn into definitive Recommendation in or , after tests.
Very good component, it not only convert a webpage to PDF like an image but really convert text, image, formatting, etc A really simple but not easily deployable solution is to use a WebBrowser control to load the Html and then using the Print method printing to a locally installed PDF printer.
Net framework. PDF Vision is good. However, you have to have Full Trust to use it. I already emailed and asked why my HTML wasn't being converted on the server but it worked fine on localhost. I found the following library more effective in converting html to pdf. I was also looking for this a while back. It's worked for me pretty well for my side project, but it all depends on what you actually need. The company that makes it sells the compiled binaries, but you are free to download and compile from source and use it for free.
I managed to compile a pretty recent revision for version 1. You can either convert an entire url to pdf:. You also have the alternative to directly save the generated pdf document to a Stream of file on the disk. Trivial to use and you have full control on the layout since you can use razor views with data from your Model and ViewBag container.
I developed a SaaS version on Azure. It makes it even easier to use it from WebApi or any. Net app, service, Azure website, Azure webjob, whatever runs. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. NET [closed] Ask Question. Asked 12 years, 11 months ago. Active 1 month ago. Viewed k times. Amedee Van Gasse 6, 3 3 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 82 82 bronze badges. SandHurst SandHurst. You can use GemBox. Document for this. Which version of iTextSharp do you use and could you share your html? Still no answer to my request for additional information.
What about. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Usage Download HtmlRenderer. PdfSharp nuget package. Use Example Method. GeneratePdf html, PdfSharp. A4 ; pdf. Had to try several workarounds including conditional project building etc. If you manage your own virtual machine its ok. But if your project is running within a constrained environment like Azure Actually is impossible withing azure as mentioned by the TuesPenchin author , Elastic Beanstalk etc it's a nightmare to configure that environment only for wkhtmltopdf to work.
Wkhtmltopdf is running as a standalone application, so its not managed by your IIS application pool. So you have to either host it as a service on another machine or you will experience processing spikes and memory consumption within your production server.
The most hated "Unable to load DLL 'wkhtmltox. They provide easy to use seamless integration with C. Additionally for real world web applications they also manage thread safety etc Anestis Kivranoglou Anestis Kivranoglou 6, 4 4 gold badges 39 39 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges.
Thank you for updating your post. I'm going to give PdfSharp a try. You saved me a lot of time. PdfSharp is good in terms of performance, but it didn't render floats properly for me. Luckily, I could change the markup to use good old tables, PdfSharp handles them well. We tried HtmlRenderer. It was really quick when not loading any CSS. But when we tried to apply CSS Bootstrap plus some bespoke , the CSS parsing took a while which we could probably mitigate , and rendering was completely different to the web page.
This creates an image of the HTML and adds the image into the pdf file. This is not a real PDF at all. Also, PDF is a vector graphics format - you can scroll near infinitely - of course except if the PDF consists of a raster graphic, which is what this library produces.
Anestis Kivranoglou i have used pdf sharp on my project. But for html design with css, it cannot render the html. Instead it is only creating a blank page — rafat. Show 11 more comments. Mario Z 3, 2 2 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez 8, 4 4 gold badges 55 55 silver badges 82 82 bronze badges. I have not done any performance comparison especially because is such a long list - maybe out there somebody has already done a "PDF generation.
Another wkhtmtopdf based solution that will even work on Azure web services is DinkToPdf fork: github. DinkToPdf is free and works in. FritsJ there are plenty of options from the list ;- — Mauricio Gracia Gutierrez. Show 1 more comment. The code is something like this: EO.
Andre Lombaard 6, 13 13 gold badges 54 54 silver badges 96 96 bronze badges. Jason Jason 5 5 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges. If it is a pay-for tool, then it might be said to be expensive, but not useless on that criteria alone. It's true EO. Pdf doesn't use IE. But it does seem to spawn 32 bit instances of a webkit browser in the background. Check your process list and you will see them as rundll PDF dll. So it still is a bit hacky in my opinion.
That's costly. Show 2 more comments. Example of use: Install via NuGet. GeneratePdf htmlContent ; Disclaimer: I'm not the developer, just a fan of the project :.
Kim Tranjan Kim Tranjan 4, 3 3 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges. Looks indeed pretty useful. Net wrapper for wkhtmtopdf as a Nuget package. Tried it, unfortunately I couldn't make it work on azure's web pages. This library works fine when I run it locally on my machine, but on the hosting server, I am seeing the following error randomly.
Pdf gets generated sometimes but sometimes it throws the following error. An error occurred while processing your request.
Cannot generate PDF: exit code: 1 " — user So this is not useful for server environments Its good and working as expected but bit quality issue i see in my pdf , can we improve this? Show 7 more comments. Combine Environment. Your PDF will look exactly like the webpage you have converted. It can be easily integrated into any application with five simple lines of code. Using this option, you can create a well-formatted PDF document from your webpage. This topic will explain how to convert an ASP.
An MVC application has a separate view and controller. Here, we are going to convert the current view to PDF. However, some webpages require authentication before access can be granted.
In such cases, we have to provide the authentication details to the converter. That way, the converter can log in to access the page. NET forms authentication mechanism to login. In this case, if the forms authentication is set to use cookies to store the forms-authentication ticket, then the corresponding cookie needs to be sent by the converter to the page that is to be converted. You can set the value of the cookie in the Cookies property available in the BlinkConverterSettings.
The webpage you want to convert may be protected with Windows authentication. The Blink rendering engine provides support for converting Windows authenticated webpages to a PDF document by providing the username and password. There are two methods to access a webpage:. By default, Blink uses the GET method. If the proxy server is configured in the system, then the rendering engine automatically uses the same settings for the conversion.
You can specify the manual proxy settings for the conversion using the ProxySettings property. Additional delay is the waiting time of the converter to load external resources styles, scripts, images, etc.
Note: For more information, refer to Working with Headers and Footers documentation. A table of contents helps us easily navigate within a document while searching for a piece of specific information or a topic. To do so, you just need to enable the EnableToc property in the converter settings.
Refer to the following code example to automatically create a table of content in a PDF document. You can use bookmarks to navigate to various headings within a PDF document. For that, you just need to enable the EnableBookmarks property in the converter settings. Note: For more information, refer to Working with Security documentation. Thanks for reading! So, try out these methods and leave your feedback in the comments section of this blog post! For existing customers, the new version of Essential Studio is available for download from the License and Downloads page.
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