Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Does anyone know a good way to convert an aspx page to a pdf document?
I have been playing around with iTextSharp but I can't find anything that would do that.

Any thoughts?

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

These are two ways to do it, I hope one can help you.

http://alpascual.com/blog/al/archive/2006/11/04/How-to-create-a-PDF-File-in-C_2300_.aspx

http://alpascual.com/blog/al/archive/2006/11/03/How-to-create-a-PDF-from-HTML.aspx

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

So basically, based on the first link, you're creating the pdf file but where in your code snippet is the page being rendered as pdf?
Is that where you're adding to the headers?

Forgive my ignorance but I'm a bit confused by it.

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

yes you are correct, whatever is displayed on the HTML will be on the PDF, you got it.

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

It appears to be working accept i'm getting an error when I try to open the file saying the file isn't in the proper format or it has been damaged (if sent in an email as an attachment).

Any ideas as to the cause of this?

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Please paste the error and the file produced, what extension it is? pdf?

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Here is the code.

I don't know how to attach the pdf file that is generated.
The error is being thrown by adobe reader.\

It states : adobe reader could not open 'test[1].pdf' because it is either not supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

in page_load

string name = "test.pdf";
            FileStream fs = new FileStream ( Server.MapPath("~/") + name, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write );
            StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter ( fs, System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding ( "gb2312" ) );
            sw.WriteLine ( "Hello World" );
            sw.Close ( );


            // If inside of a page:


            Response.AddHeader ( "Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + Server.UrlEncode ( name ) );
            Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
            //Response.AddHeader ( "Content-Type", "binary/octet-stream" );
            //Response.AddHeader ( "Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + downloadName + "; size=" + downloadBytes.Length.ToString ( ) );
            //Response.Flush ( );
            //Response.BinaryWrite ( downloadBytes ); 
            Response.Flush ( );
            Response.End ( );


            Response.WriteFile ( name );
            Response.End ( );

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Clear all headers before creating the file

Response.ClearHeaders()

Let me know if that helps

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Nope same thing.

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Any ideas?

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Sorry, I run out of ideas, I haven't use that code for 2 years now, I'll refresh the code and run it in my Vista to see the results, please do send me the code it you want alpascual at g mail.com

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

hi mate,

Open the file using memorystrem object.

Get the frame count of the file.

You can then loop through the pages or myou can save the entire file in pdf format.

No need for third party software.

cheers mate,

vijay [:)]

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

That sounds great Vijay.
I don't have much experience with MemoryStreams or frame counts.
Could you provide the code snippet for that?

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

hey,

you got any solution for converting a aspx page to pdf? in your code in which line r u giving source aspx file name or path?

i tried to play with pdfsharp library, it is generating pdf file, but can not open the same file. if you got any solution please let me know.

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

There is api with source code example that converts .net data to a pdf. Not the exact aspx page though so it may not be exactly what you need. It is located at www.datatabletopdf.com if wanted.

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

http://hamang.net/2008/08/14/html-to-pdf-in-net/ surf this link i convert asp.net to pdf file succesfully.

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Even I am working on the same and tried using itextsharp but couldnt find solution. Please help me.

On my aspx page I have data populated from database based on querystring. Now I want to disply this page as pdf. How do I do this?

The above links you provided are not working. Can you please provide the right links?

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

<div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> {</div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"></div> <div style="position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;" id="_mcePaste"> }</div> <div></div>

public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)

{

}

<div>
</div><div>
</div><div>place this code in ur page.. and see it works or not.</div>

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

Yes This is Very Good Link

Its working Fine

Re: Best way to convert an aspx page to pdf

hi,

it is possible to convert aspx page to pdf using iTextSharp.

first you add reference to your application (itextSharp.dll)

then. add

using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;

after adding namespaces write this code on button click

string attachment = "attachment; filename=" + filename+ ".pdf";
    Response.ClearContent();
    Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", attachment);
    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
    StringWriter stw = new StringWriter();
    HtmlTextWriter htextw = new HtmlTextWriter(stw);
    htextw.AddStyleAttribute("font-size", "7pt");
    htextw.AddStyleAttribute("color", "Black");

    Panel_Name.RenderControl(htextw);//Name of the Panel
    Document document = new Document();
    document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 5, 5, 15, 5);
    FontFactory.GetFont("Arial", 50, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.BLUE);
    PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, Response.OutputStream);
    document.Open();

    StringReader str = new StringReader(stw.ToString());
    HTMLWorker htmlworker = new HTMLWorker(document);
    htmlworker.Parse(str);

    document.Close();
    Response.Write(document);

then copy and paste this code in some where on code

public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
{


}


Regards
Nidhin Das K (Assyst International)