How To Save webPage in PDF Formate through c# ?

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Satyapriya Nayak · Answer

First download itextsharp.dll from http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/ .. First add the itextsharp.dll file into the application as click solution explorer- Right click on your application file-Add reference-On browse tab search the itextsharp.dll file from your computer-Click ok-Finish. Then you will notice that a Bin folder will be created where you will find itextsharp.dll file present inside that folder. Untitled Page aspdotnetcodebook cell1 cell2 using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.IO; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using iTextSharp.text.html; using iTextSharp.text.xml; using System.Xml; using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser; namespace convert_web_page_to_pdf { public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) { MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream(); StreamWriter twr = new StreamWriter(mem); HtmlTextWriter myWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(twr); base.Render(myWriter); myWriter.Flush(); myWriter.Dispose(); StreamReader strmRdr = new StreamReader(mem); strmRdr.BaseStream.Position = 0; string pageContent = strmRdr.ReadToEnd(); strmRdr.Dispose(); mem.Dispose(); writer.Write(pageContent); CreatePDFDocument(pageContent); } public void CreatePDFDocument(string strHtml) { string strFileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("test.pdf"); // step 1: creation of a document-object Document document = new Document(); // step 2: // we create a writer that listens to the document PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(strFileName, FileMode.Create)); StringReader se = new StringReader(strHtml); HTMLWorker obj = new HTMLWorker(document); document.Open(); obj.Parse(se); document.Close(); ShowPdf(strFileName); } public void ShowPdf(string strFileName) { Response.ClearContent(); Response.ClearHeaders(); Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + strFileName); Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; Response.WriteFile(strFileName); Response.Flush(); Response.Clear(); } } }

Subash · Answer

thanks

Trevor Carter · Answer

Hello! If you're creating a commercial project you may want to look at Elerium HTML to PDF .NET component. I hope this example will help you: http://eleriumsoft.com/PDF_NET/HTML2PDF/Examples/ex1.aspx Disclaimer: I'm a developer at Elerium Software.

Akkiraju Ivaturi · Answer

StreamReader.ReadToEnd() returns a string. PDF files are binary, and contain data that is not string-friendly. You need to read it into a byte array, and write the byte array to disk. Even better, use a smaller byte array as a buffer and read in small chunks. You can also simplify the whole thing by just using webclient: using ( var wc = new System . Net . WebClient ()) { wc . DownloadFile ( Url , FileName ); } I got this from stack over flow thinking it might help you.

Akshay Porwal · Answer

Getting error in this line : PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(strFileName, FileMode.Create)); The process cannot access the file 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\internal\SupportCommuniationFiles	eeest.pdf' because it is being used by another process.

alice yang · Answer

Hi, You can try Free Spire.PDF NuGet Package(https://www.nuget.org/packages/FreeSpire.PDF/) to convert HTML to PDF, it's easy to use. Reference: http://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/Convert-HTML-to-PDF-with-New-Plugin.html

Howard Mahaffey · Answer

Akkiraju can you explain your approach? I really do not say any possible way that that would work. For starters the Yogesh problem does not have anything to do with string and byte array... his problem lies with HTML format and PDF format. These are two completely different format and you cannot just write the HTML content into a PDF file... Yogesh what you need to do is convert a web page from HTML format into a PDF format with C# . You can do this with ease by using a GemBox.Document library, like shown in the above linked article. Pravin if you need to also convert the form's data that user put in then what you need to do is first call the RenderControl method. It will return the HTML content which will also include the user's data, after that you can create your PDF file from C# .

Pravin Dukare · Answer

i needed the code for same contennt as display on form that form as it save in pdf format, and using this code containts and images not shows in proper way, please help!!!

Sautinsoft company · Answer

Disclaimer: I'm working for this company. Hi! You can use for this PDF Vision .Net . The component very easy to add and in use. Supports HTML/XHTML to PDF , URL to PDF converting . Also allows merges and splits PDF files. :) Our Online supports team will be glad to help You if you have any questions about the component. You can use Full PDF Vision .Net version or Free trial PDF Vision .Net version. Here example code for the Converting HTML to PDF in ASP.Net/C# : SautinSoft.PdfVision v = new SautinSoft.PdfVision(); v.PageStyle.PageSize.Letter(); byte [] pdf = v.ConvertHtmlFileToPDFStream(@"http://www.microsoft.com"); if (pdf!= null) { Response.Buffer = true; Response.Clear(); Response.ContentType = "application/PDF"; Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition:", "attachment; filename=Result.pdf"); Response.BinaryWrite(pdf); Response.Flush(); Response.End(); } Good luck :)

How To Save webPage in PDF Formate through c# ?

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