I would like to call an action on a controller. Have the controller get the data from the model. The view then runs and generates a PDF. The only example I have found i
I just used wkhtmltopdf, to create the layout in html and afterwards, i convert it to pdf.
Easy, customizable, awesome as hell :)
Very Late Reply, but I found that the following URL helped me get my results quickly :
(Ensure that you reference to the iTextSharp DLL by making use of the Nuget Packages)
https://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Export-Grid-Html-Table-data-from-database-to-PDF-file-using-iTextSharp-in-ASPNet-MVC.aspx
EDIT This is the code I used to make the table look a little different(This is landscape as well:
public string GetCssForPdf()
{
string css = "";
css = "th, td" +
"{" +
"font-family:Arial; font-size:10px" +
"}";
return css;
}
[HttpPost]
[ValidateInput(false)]
public FileResult Export(string GridHtml)
{
string webgridstyle = GetCssForPdf();
string exportData = String.Format("<html><body>{0}{1}</body></html>", "<style>" + webgridstyle + "</style>", GridHtml);
var bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(exportData);
using (var input = new MemoryStream(bytes))
{
var output = new MemoryStream();
var document = new iTextSharp.text.Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
document.SetPageSize(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4.Rotate());
Font headerFont = FontFactory.GetFont("Verdana", 10);
Font rowfont = FontFactory.GetFont("Verdana", 10);
writer.CloseStream = false;
document.Open();
var xmlWorker = iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance();
xmlWorker.ParseXHtml(writer, document, input, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
document.Close();
output.Position = 0;
return File(output, "application/pdf", "Pipeline_Report.pdf");
//return new FileStreamResult(output, "application/pdf");
}
}
Hope this helps someone else as well.