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  How to get iTextSharp to output formatted HTML

  Nov 08, 2012 05:12 PM|LINK

  Ok, I feel like I'm missing something but who knows. I'm trying output formatted HTML (html tags) to PDF but I want it to look like it would as a web page. What I get is the html code instead. Anyone have an example of how to do this? I'm really stuck.

  protected void GeneratePDF()
      {
          strBody = Server.HtmlEncode(strBody.ToString());
          Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0f);
          PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
          pdfDoc.Open();
          List<IElement> htmlarraylist = iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(strBody), null);
  
          //add the collection to the document
          for (int k = 0; k < htmlarraylist.Count; k++)
          {
              pdfDoc.Add((IElement)htmlarraylist[k]);
          }
  
          Paragraph mypara = new Paragraph();//make an emtphy paragraph as "holder"
          mypara.IndentationLeft = 36;
          mypara.InsertRange(0, htmlarraylist);
          pdfDoc.Add(new Paragraph(htmlarraylist.ToString()));
          pdfDoc.Close();
          Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
          Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=ConflictReport_" + DateTime.Now.ToString("MM-dd-yyyy HH:mm:ss") + ".pdf");
          Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
          Response.Write(pdfDoc);
          Response.End();
      }

  
  
  

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  • Edited by bbcompent1 on Nov 08, 2012 05:12 PM
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