How to insert new page in PDF with itextSharp

Sanket Jain

I have 2 tables in my form. I am generating PDF file with the help of itextsharp.dll

I want to break the page when 2nd table is started but it can't work right now

I inserted 2 tables in panel & write following code

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Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=Report.pdf");
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new System.IO.StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);

panelPrint.RenderControl(htmlWrite);

System.IO.StringReader sr = new System.IO.StringReader(stringWrite.ToString());
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 10f, 7f);
//Document pdfDoc = new Document(
HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
pdfDoc.Open();
htmlparser.Parse(sr);
pdfDoc.Close();
Response.Write(pdfDoc);
Response.End();

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So please tell me how to break that page when 2nd table is started?

8 Replies

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Satyaprakash Samantaray9y ago
https://forums.asp.net/t/1428577.aspx?Add+a+new+page+in+iTextSharp
Satyaprakash Samantaray9y ago
https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/855398/How-to-insert-new-page-in-PDF-with-itextSharp
Satyaprakash Samantaray9y ago
check my article and blogs
Ravi Sangtani9y ago
Hi Sanket

with the help of doc.NewPage(); you can add new page in you pdf
anushree partani9y ago
Use below code whenever page break is needed.
document.NewPage();

Jonathan Sterling11y ago

If I understood you correctly, essentially you want to create a new PDF file with C# code from those two HTML tables and insert a page break between them.

For this you can use a .NET's component for word documents, for example here is how you can do this conversion in .NET from the HTML into a PDF:

panelPrint.RenderControl(htmlWrite);

// Load HTML text.
DocumentModel document;
var options = LoadOptions.HtmlDefault;
using (var htmlStream = new MemoryStream(options.Encoding.GetBytes(stringWrite.ToString())))
    document = DocumentModel.Load(htmlStream, options);
 
// Get second Table element.
var secondTable = document.GetChildElements(true, ElementType.Table).Skip(1).First();
// Insert PageBrak element. 
secondTable.Content.Start.InsertRange(
    new Paragraph(document,
        new SpecialCharacter(document, SpecialCharacterType.PageBreak)).Content);
 
// Download PDF file.
document.Save(this.Response, "Report.pdf");

Notice that this last line (Save method's call) actually exports that PDF file to ASP.NET's client so you can remove your code that sets headers and content type on the Response (it will do it for you).

Alex Smith11y ago
Here is a more simply way to insert a new page in PDF file:

//create a PDF document and load file
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.LoadFromFile("sample.pdf");

//insert blank page at the end of the PDF file
doc.Pages.Add();

//insert blank page as the second page
doc.Pages.Insert(1);

After creating the new page, you can then insert 2nd table to this page.
Jack Fandora11y ago
Sanket, I used leadtools to do all my PDF operations in my project but I found the following link that I think might help you achieve what you want:
http://forums.asp.net/t/1428577.aspx?Add+a+new+page+in+iTextSharp