Is it possible to create a PDF of the current page?

Question

What I want to do is create a PDF document of the current page programmatically.
I have taken a quick look at iTextSharp and it seems that is not what I am after - it looks like you have to output line by line to iText#

What I am looking for is a bit similar to how you may choose File, Print, select a PDF writer, enter some details (eg, filename, etc), but this should all be done with minimal user interaction. In other words, user clicks a submit button on the form, a pdf is created on the server and then sent to the user via email.

Is this possible?

Gary King · Answer

Hi Javeed Thank you for the code - it may be a step in the right direction but the problem is that it contains the text to go to pdf  show this text as PDF . What I need to do is provide a seperate page to be converted. And to possibly make matters more complex I need the source page to be .aspx not .html. So for example my Default.aspx page will load the output from  ConvertMe.aspx?ID=5  and create  ConvertMe.pdf  Is this possible?

Amit Choudhary · Answer

try HTML parse method to create the document with ITextSharp then write it with FileStream to you desired download folder.. just easy peasy...

Prabhu Raja · Answer

Hi I doesn't did this translation before so i suggest the following articles. Example 1 Example 2 Source Code 1

Javeed M Shaikh · Answer

Hi Gary Please download iTextSharp from the following link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/ Reference the itextsharp.dll in your project and use the following code to display your page in HTML: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using System.IO; using System.Text; using System.Web; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; protected void Page_Load(object sender EventArgs e) { MemoryStream m = new MemoryStream(); Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4.Rotate() 10 10 10 10); Response.ContentType = application/pdf; PdfWriter.GetInstance(document m); document.Open(); PdfWriter.GetInstance(document new FileStream(mypdffile.pdf FileMode.Create)); // step 3: we open the document document.Open(); StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder(); strBuilder.Append(show this text as PDF); document.Add(new Paragraph(strBuilder.ToString())); document.Close(); Response.OutputStream.Write(m.GetBuffer() 0 m.GetBuffer().Length); Response.OutputStream.Flush(); Response.OutputStream.Close(); } Please do not forget to mark Accepted Answer.

Gary King · Answer

Thank you for your suggestion.... I have downloaded the code but am struggling to get past the many many errors in VS (Linq var etc). Maybe it is because I am not running the latest version of the .net Framework? Could you possibly help me out by writing the HTMLtoPDF conversion code that would output a pdf version of a givem html page (eg MyPage.html) in a way that would work with Framework 2.0? Thanks Gary

bharathi k · Answer

Yes It is Possible to generate Pdf file of the Current page Here is the link is which is used to generate pdf using ITextsharp library. http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030911-1.aspx. But you have the change file path here string contents = File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath(Page.AppRelativeVirtualPath)); like this instead of below path // Read in the contents of the Receipt.htm file... string contents = File.ReadAllText(Server.MapPath(~/HTMLTemplate/Receipt.htm)); Happy Programming