convert html file into PDF file?

Question

Hello everyone,

I am using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5 + ASP.Net + IIS 7.0 to develop web application. I want to convert html file/page/string into PDF file.

1. Any built-in solution from Microsoft to do this?
2. The top issue is about paging, i.e. how to map html conent to converted PDF page? e.g. I want to display an html table and an image in page 1 of converted PDF file, and display following html text after the image in original html into page 2 of converted PDF file?

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

There are some online services to converting from HTML to PDF. Here are links

http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk/

http://www.pdfonfly.com/

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html

Also there are some services to do vise versa.

http://www.pdfdownload.org/free-pdf-to-html.aspx

http://www.convertpdftohtml.net/

Answer 2

Try ABCpdf. Warning: it's not freeware/opensource.

http://www.websupergoo.com/abcpdf-8.htm

Sample from site demonstrating HTML support:

http://www.websupergoo.com/helppdf7net/source/4-examples/13-pagedhtml.htm

Answer 3

Have a look at http://pdfcrowd.com. They provide an online HTML to PDF conversion API and have a client library for C#.