Is it possible to create a PDF of the current page?

Gary King

What I want to do is create a PDF document of the current page programmatically.
I have taken a quick look at iTextSharp and it seems that is not what I am after - it looks like you have to output line by line to iText#

What I am looking for is a bit similar to how you may choose File, Print, select a PDF writer, enter some details (eg, filename, etc), but this should all be done with minimal user interaction. In other words, user clicks a submit button on the form, a pdf is created on the server and then sent to the user via email.

Is this possible?

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Gary King15y ago
Hi Javeed,

Thank you for the code - it may be a step in the right direction, but the problem is that it contains the text to go to pdf "show this text as PDF".
What I need to do is provide a seperate page to be converted. And to possibly make matters more complex, I need the source page to be .aspx, not .html.

So for example, my Default.aspx page will load the output from "ConvertMe.aspx?ID=5" and create "ConvertMe.pdf"

Is this possible?
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Amit Choudhary15y ago
try HTML parse method to create the document with ITextSharp then write it with FileStream to you desired download folder.. just easy peasy...
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Prabhu Raja15y ago
Hi,

I doesn't did this translation before, so i suggest the following articles.

Example 1
Example 2
Source Code 1

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Javeed M Shaikh15y ago
Hi Gary,

Please download iTextSharp from the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/

Reference the itextsharp.dll in your project, and use the following code to display your page in HTML:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream();
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4.Rotate(), 10, 10, 10, 10);

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, m);

document.Open();

PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream("mypdffile.pdf", FileMode.Create));
// step 3: we open the document

document.Open();

StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
strBuilder.Append("show this text as PDF");

document.Add(new Paragraph(strBuilder.ToString()));

document.Close();

Response.OutputStream.Write(m.GetBuffer(), 0, m.GetBuffer().Length);

Response.OutputStream.Flush();

Response.OutputStream.Close();

}

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Gary King15y ago
Thank you for your suggestion....

I have downloaded the code, but am struggling to get past the many, many errors in VS (Linq, var, etc).
Maybe it is because I am not running the latest version of the .net Framework?

Could you possibly help me out by writing the HTMLtoPDF conversion code that would output a pdf version of a givem html page (eg, "MyPage.html") in a way that would work with Framework 2.0?

Thanks
Gary
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bharathi k15y ago
Yes ,It is Possible to generate Pdf file of the Current page,

Here is the link is which is used to generate pdf using ITextsharp library.
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030911-1.aspx.

But you have the change file path here
string contents = File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath(Page.AppRelativeVirtualPath));

like this instead of below path
// Read in the contents of the Receipt.htm file...
string contents = File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath("~/HTMLTemplate/Receipt.htm"));

Happy Programming
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