Sunday, June 3, 2012

html to pdf using itextSharp

In previous article we checked how to convert gridview to pdf.

https://blogabhijeet.blogspot.com/2012/06/gridview-to-pdf-using-itextsharp.html

First of all you need to convert contents of html to Pdf. There is an third party dll:- iTextSharp dll which will help us to convert html contents to pdf.

Just Download iTextsharp lib. from http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/

Add 1 form in your project named as "pdf" then copy following design & Code behind code &  replace it in your code.

Currently we have taken form and we are showing contents of current page in pdf.

Design Page
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="ShowCurrentContentPageinPdf.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default2" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:PlaceHolder ID="PlaceholderPdf" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>
    <div>
        <table border="1">
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    aspdotnetcodebook
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>
                    cell1
                </td>
                <td>
                    cell2
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td colspan="2">
                    <asp:Label ID="lblLabel" runat="server" Text="Label Test"></asp:Label>
                </td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </div>
    <p>
        &nbsp;</p>
    <p>
        xzcv</p>
    <p>
        &nbsp;</p>
    <p>
        &nbsp;</p>
    <p>
        &nbsp;</p>
    <p>
        sdvasd</p>
    <p>
        &nbsp;</p>
    <p>
        &nbsp;</p>
    <p>
        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>
    </p>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
Code Behind Page 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html;
using iTextSharp.text.xml;
using System.Xml;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
public partial class Default2 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {


    }

    protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream();
        StreamWriter twr = new StreamWriter(mem);
        HtmlTextWriter myWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(twr);
        base.Render(myWriter);
        myWriter.Flush();
        myWriter.Dispose();
        StreamReader strmRdr = new StreamReader(mem);
        strmRdr.BaseStream.Position = 0;
        string pageContent = strmRdr.ReadToEnd();
        strmRdr.Dispose();
        mem.Dispose();
        writer.Write(pageContent);
        CreatePDFDocument(pageContent);


    }
    public void CreatePDFDocument(string strHtml)
    {

        string strFileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("test.pdf");
        // step 1: creation of a document-object
        Document document = new Document();
        // step 2:
        // we create a writer that listens to the document
        PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(strFileName, FileMode.Create));
        StringReader se = new StringReader(strHtml);
        HTMLWorker obj = new HTMLWorker(document);
        document.Open();
        obj.Parse(se);
        document.Close();
        ShowPdf(strFileName);



    }
    public void ShowPdf(string strFileName)
    {
        Response.ClearContent();
        Response.ClearHeaders();
        Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
        Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + strFileName);
        //Response.WriteFile(strFileName);
        Response.TransmitFile(strFileName);
        Response.End();
        Response.Flush();
        Response.Clear();
    }
}
We have created 1 more class file

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

/// <summary>
/// Summary description for MyPage
/// </summary>
public class MyPage : Page
{
    public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
    {
        GridView grid = control as GridView;
        if (grid != null && grid.ID == "GridView1")
            return;
        else
            base.VerifyRenderingInServerForm(control);

    }
}
Above code snippet will help us to convert HTML page to pdf.

 Happy Coding !!


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