#html2pdf

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Convert HTML to PDF in C# using iTextSharp

You can use iTextSharp in a commercial application and it does not require your app to be released as open source. But it will not work with complex HTML pages and will give fairly good results with simple HTML pages. Specially, tables are not yet supported. iTextSharp-- http://itextsharpsl.codeplex.com/. Code Snippet * // create converter * HtmlToPdfConverter html2pdf = new HtmlToPdfConverter(); * // open new pdf file * html2pdf.Open(@"test"); * // start a chapter * html2pdf.AddChapter(@"Dummy Chapter"); * string html = ...; * // convert string * html2pdf.Run(html); * // add a new chapter * html2pdf.AddChapter(@"Boost page"); * // read web page * html2pdf.Run(new Uri(@"http://www.apple.com")); * // close and finish pdf file. * html2pdf.Close();   http://dlvr.it/4p6bhk

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Convert HTML to PDF in C# using Spire.PDF

As far as I know, this is the simplest solution with high quality to convert any HTML file to PDF using C# and finally I chose this one. It supports to convert the complex HTML page with rich elements, such as HTTPS, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript. But it is not free. You can have 1 month free trial on it. If you want to use it in commercial application, you need to purchase the license at the acceptable price. https://pdfapi.codeplex.com/ Code Snippet * //Create a pdf document * PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument(); * String url = "Http://apple.com/" * doc.LoadFromHTML(url, false, true, true); * //Save pdf file * doc.SaveToFile("webpageaspdf.pdf"); * doc.Close(); * System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("webpageaspdf.pdf"); http://dlvr.it/4p5Lwg

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Convert HTML to PDF in C# using wkhtmltopdf

It is a simple shell utility created in C# to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and it is free. But it has strange codes when converting HTML pages in GB2132-code to PDF. http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ Code Snippet * /// * /// Convert html to pdf document. * /// * ///URL address *   ///PDF save load * public static bool HtmlToPdf(string url, string path) * {         *             try *     { *        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(url) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(path)) *            return false;    *        Process p = new Process(); *        string str = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("wkhtmltopdf.exe"); *              *        if (!System.IO.File.Exists(str)) *            return false; * *        p.StartInfo.FileName = str; *        p.StartInfo.Arguments = " \"" + url + "\" " + path; *        p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; *        p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true; *         p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true; *         p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true; *         p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; *         p.Start(); *         System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); *         return true; *     } *     catch (Exception ex) *     { *         HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(ex); *     } *     return false; * } http://dlvr.it/4p43ct

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HTML 2 PDF generation via WeasyPrint (Githubed)

WeasyPrint (Github) : is a nice python-based alternative to wkhtml2pdf.

Features are detailled here (CSS support, etc.) :

Starting with version 0.11, WeasyPrint passes the Acid2 test

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-lxml libcairo2 libpango1.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libffi-dev shared-mime-info virtualenv $ cd /tmp $ sudo pip install virtualenv $ virtualenv --system-site-packages ./venv $ . ./venv/bin/activate $ pip install WeasyPrint $ weasyprint http://weasyprint.org /Apps/weasyprint-website.pdf

To uninstall (leaving virtualenv) :

$ deactivate

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Convert HTML to PDF in C# using Spire.PDF

As far as I know, this is the simplest solution with high quality to convert any HTML file to PDF using C# and finally I chose this one. It supports to convert the complex HTML page with rich elements, such as HTTPS, CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript. But it is not free. You can have 1 month free trial on it. If you want to use it in commercial application, you need to purchase the license at the acceptable price. https://pdfapi.codeplex.com/ Code Snippet * //Create a pdf document * PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument(); * String url = "Http://apple.com/" * doc.LoadFromHTML(url, false, true, true); * //Save pdf file * doc.SaveToFile("webpageaspdf.pdf"); * doc.Close(); * System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("webpageaspdf.pdf"); http://dlvr.it/4fkHHr

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Convert HTML to PDF in C# using wkhtmltopdf

It is a simple shell utility created in C# to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and it is free. But it has strange codes when converting HTML pages in GB2132-code to PDF. http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ Code Snippet * /// * /// Convert html to pdf document. * /// * ///URL address *   ///PDF save load * public static bool HtmlToPdf(string url, string path) * {         *             try *     { *        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(url) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(path)) *            return false;    *        Process p = new Process(); *        string str = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("wkhtmltopdf.exe"); *              *        if (!System.IO.File.Exists(str)) *            return false; * *        p.StartInfo.FileName = str; *        p.StartInfo.Arguments = " \"" + url + "\" " + path; *        p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; *        p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true; *         p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true; *         p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true; *         p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; *         p.Start(); *         System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); *         return true; *     } *     catch (Exception ex) *     { *         HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(ex); *     } *     return false; * } http://dlvr.it/4ffssd

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Convert HTML to PDF in C# using iTextSharp

You can use iTextSharp in a commercial application and it does not require your app to be released as open source. But it will not work with complex HTML pages and will give fairly good results with simple HTML pages. Specially, tables are not yet supported. iTextSharp-- http://itextsharpsl.codeplex.com/. Code Snippet * // create converter * HtmlToPdfConverter html2pdf = new HtmlToPdfConverter(); * // open new pdf file * html2pdf.Open(@"test"); * // start a chapter * html2pdf.AddChapter(@"Dummy Chapter"); * string html = ...; * // convert string * html2pdf.Run(html); * // add a new chapter * html2pdf.AddChapter(@"Boost page"); * // read web page * html2pdf.Run(new Uri(@"http://www.apple.com")); * // close and finish pdf file. * html2pdf.Close();   http://dlvr.it/4fZZWk

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html2pdf server setup

I'm always forgetting to setup a working html2pdf binary on new server setups, here's my reminder:

sudo apt-get install libqtcore4 # source: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2 bunzip2 wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2 tar -xvf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar cp wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf ln /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/html2pdf