I tried wkhtmltopdf which worked perfectly... But on the server I cant start a process so my solution would be this: https://github.com/gmanny/Pechkin
But I have no idea how to implement it in my project... Are there any samples I can just open and run?
I had a look at this example:
byte[] pdfBuf = new SimplePechkin(new GlobalConfig()).Convert("<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1></body></html>");
// create global configuration object
GlobalConfig gc = new GlobalConfig();
// set it up using fluent notation
gc.SetMargins(new Margins(300, 100, 150, 100))
.SetDocumentTitle("Test document")
.SetPaperSize(PaperKind.Letter);
//... etc
// create converter
IPechkin pechkin = new SynchronizedPechkin(gc);
// subscribe to events
pechkin.Begin += OnBegin;
pechkin.Error += OnError;
pechkin.Warning += OnWarning;
pechkin.PhaseChanged += OnPhase;
pechkin.ProgressChanged += OnProgress;
pechkin.Finished += OnFinished;
// create document configuration object
ObjectConfig oc = new ObjectConfig();
// and set it up using fluent notation too
oc.SetCreateExternalLinks(false)
.SetFallbackEncoding(Encoding.ASCII)
.SetLoadImages(false);
.SetPageUri("http://google.com");
//... etc
// convert document
byte[] pdfBuf = pechkin.Convert(oc);
But I didn't make it work... It looks so easy but no idea how to implement it...
But I see Gman has worked with it.
Thank you in advance... :)
Here is the simplest example I could think of which also writes the output to a file.
byte[] pdfBuf = new SimplePechkin(new GlobalConfig()).Convert(html);
File.WriteAllBytes(path, pdfBuf);
use this
private void CreatePdfPechkin(string htmlString, string fileName)
{
//Transform the HTML into PDF
var pechkin = Factory.Create(new GlobalConfig()
.SetMargins(new Margins(100, 50, 100, 100))
.SetDocumentTitle("Test document")
.SetPaperSize(PaperKind.A4)
.SetCopyCount(1)
//.SetPaperOrientation(true)
// .SetOutputFile("F:/Personal/test.pdf")
);
ObjectConfig oc = new ObjectConfig();
oc.Footer.SetLeftText("[page]");
oc.Footer.SetTexts("[page]", "[date]", "[time]");
oc.Header.SetCenterText("TEST HEADER TEST1");
oc.Header.SetHtmlContent("<h1>TEST HEADER V2</h1>");
oc.SetAllowLocalContent(true);
//// create converter
//IPechkin ipechkin = new SynchronizedPechkin(pechkin);
// set it up using fluent notation
var pdf = pechkin.Convert(new ObjectConfig()
.SetLoadImages(true).SetZoomFactor(1.5)
.SetPrintBackground(true)
.SetScreenMediaType(true)
.SetCreateExternalLinks(true), htmlString);
//Return the PDF file
Response.Clear();
Response.ClearContent();
Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment;filename=test.pdf; size={0}", pdf.Length));
Response.BinaryWrite(pdf);
Response.Flush();
Response.End();
// byte[] pdf = new Pechkin.Synchronized.SynchronizedPechkin(
//new Pechkin.GlobalConfig()).Convert(
// new Pechkin.ObjectConfig()
// .SetLoadImages(true)
// .SetPrintBackground(true)
// .SetScreenMediaType(true)
// .SetCreateExternalLinks(true), htmlString);
// using (FileStream file = System.IO.File.Create(@"F:\Pankaj WorkSpace\"+ fileName))
// {
// file.Write(pdf, 0, pdf.Length);
// }
}
Another Example of use
A little more complete, because you can set the margins of page
// create global configuration object
GlobalConfig gc = new GlobalConfig();
// set it up using fluent notation
gc.SetMargins(new Margins(10, 10, 10, 10))
.SetDocumentTitle("Test document")
.SetPaperSize(PaperKind.Letter);
//... etc
// create converter
IPechkin pechkin = new SynchronizedPechkin(gc);
// create document configuration object
ObjectConfig oc = new ObjectConfig();
// and set it up using fluent notation too
oc.SetCreateExternalLinks(false)
.SetLoadImages(false)
.SetPrintBackground(true)
.SetLoadImages(true);
//... etc
// convert document
byte[] pdfBuf = pechkin.Convert(oc, html);
Ps: In this example, the background images are being loaded, but I advise you to encode the Image in the Html, otherwise I think it will not work!
Note that now you Have a pdfBuf as a Byte Array, you can save it to a file, or just load into a Memory Stream, like:
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(pdfBuf);