Export from HTML to PDF (C#) [duplicate]

Answer 1

open source pdf stream generation .net assembly: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/

once you get the hang of it, you'll never use any 3rd party #%$^# or clog up your server doing IO's and taking up space for a temporary file ever again.

Answer 2

ExpertPDF does a decent job of converting HTML to PDF (including images). Internally, it uses a hosted copy of IE to render the HTML before converting it, which means this component won't work with Mono on Linux, and it means IE's quirks are your PDF's quirks. That said, it does a good job of rendering moderately complex layouts, and you can control pagination with CSS page-break-before and such.

Answer 3

You would have to give the images absolute link to some avaible location on the internet.

Once the doc has been loaded into Word, saving the 'HTML' doc as a MSWord one, should include the images (or perhaps an option?).

Answer 4

Try PDF Duo .Net component that converts HTML to PDF to/from string | file | url | stream. It is a small but very effictive library that you can use in your ASP.NET application.

Find ASP.NET C# example on its page.

Answer 5

I would opt for creating a PDF file on the server. There are many products that do so but you should research the one that works best in your case considering the following:

• Computer resources needed to create the PDF. If it's a complex document it may take too long and or slow down the response to other users.
• Number of concurrent users that will require this same function
• Cost (there are free solutions as well as heavy weight commercial products).

I would not rely on Word format for that as PDF will give you some more guarantee that it will be readable in the future.

Also, the option of embedding hard links to the images don't seem a good idea to me. What if the user wants to open the document and the server is not accessible?

Answer 6

I like DocRaptor.com for creating pdfs. It's a web app that works in any language, and it uses Prince XML, so the results are high quality.