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

Answer 1

You have a bigger problem... saving the file generated is the prerogative of the browser. How the browser deals with any particular file stream, even when you set the content type, is entirely up to the browser. Your best bet is probably to use something like ABCpdf to convert the HTML/images into a PDF. I've had pretty good luck with their software, and they have decent support. Of course, this is a third party tool you'll have to install. Without doing that, your next best option is probably to create a zip of the HTML with images and other files (CSS, javascript?)... but that is going to take quite a bit of back-end logic.

Some browsers have this feature built-in. You could ask your users to use that. :)

Answer 2

I've had the same problem but have not got around to solving it, since we settled to exporting an "image-less" document, since it did not have any images in the first place.

However, when searching for the problem I came across this article, about how to export a doc using XSLT. I haven't yet found the time to work on it, but maybe you can have a go at it

Answer 3

MS has a new page-description format "XPS" which can be generated simply from WPF the programming model, whether on the server or on a client. There's an XPS Reader app, like the PDF Reader, that allows users to view and print XPS docs. There's a simple API to produce an XPS doc.