Hi, in this post I am going to share very simple and easy way to convert HTML document to Pdf file on the fly on just one click , you can use it from desktop as well as web application to convert a html page either from local storage or online web page.Lets start this , we are going to use PDFizer (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfizer/) for this task , a very easy and simple open source library to use for .net apps.Download that form above url and use the following code for creating a PDF document from html source.
- Include pdfizer.dll into reference of your project
- Specify the path where to store created pdf file
static string sPathToWritePdfTo = "Report.pdf";
- Create a simple method public static void HtmlToPdf(string htmlString,string sPathToWritePdf)
{
Stream stream = new FileStream(sPathToWritePdf, FileMode.Create);
HtmlToPdfConverter htmlToPdf = new HtmlToPdfConverter();
htmlToPdf.Open(stream);
htmlToPdf.Run(htmlString);
htmlToPdf.Close();
stream.Dispose();
stream.Close();
} - Use above method to create Pdf file from html source like following StringBuilder sbHtml = new StringBuilder();
sbHtml.Append("<html>");
sbHtml.Append("<body>");
sbHtml.Append("This is my document text ");
sbHtml.Append("</body>");
sbHtml.Append("</html>");
HtmlToPdf(sbHtml.ToString(),sPathToWritePdfTo);
public static String code(string Url)
{
HttpWebRequest myRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Url);
myRequest.Method = "GET";
WebResponse myResponse = myRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(myResponse.GetResponseStream(),
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
string result = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
myResponse.Close();
return result;
}
This method will return you html source of the input url so you can create
your pdf of online resources like that.
Recently during R&D I found another opensource pdf creation library for .net which seems to be more powerful (not sure), here is the link for library
"PDFSharp" "http://pdfsharp.codeplex.com/releases/view/37054" , will surely get into it when got some time :)
A very useful post from another forum is "http://csharp.net-informations.com/file/create-pdf.htm".
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