Convert HTML to PDF in .NET

Question

I want to generate a PDF by passing HTML contents to a function. I have made use of iTextSharp for this but it does not perform well when it encounters tables and the layout

Answer 1

Quite likely most projects will wrap a C/C++ Engine rather than implementing a C# solution from scratch. Try Project Gotenberg.

To test it

docker run --rm -p 3000:3000 thecodingmachine/gotenberg:6

Curl Example

curl --request POST \
    --url http://localhost:3000/convert/url \
    --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
    --form remoteURL=https://brave.com \
    --form marginTop=0 \
    --form marginBottom=0 \
    --form marginLeft=0 \
    --form marginRight=0 \
    -o result.pdf

C# sample.cs

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.IO;
using static System.Console;

namespace HelloWorld
{
    class Program
    {
        public static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                var client = new HttpClient();            
                var formContent = new MultipartFormDataContent
                    {
                        {new StringContent("https://duckduckgo.com/"), "remoteURL"},
                        {new StringContent("0"), "marginTop" }
                    };
                var result = await client.PostAsync(new Uri("http://localhost:3000/convert/url"), formContent);
                await File.WriteAllBytesAsync("duckduck.com.pdf", await result.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                WriteLine(ex);
            }
        }
    }
}

To compile

csc sample.cs -langversion:latest -reference:System.Net.Http.dll && mono ./sample.exe