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iText-Sharp
Works very much like the java version, and has both great documentation and multiple books available.

Joel Meador 2008-12-13 15:43:41

in iText-Sharp, what would be the syntax for taking an html div and converting it to a pdf? Is it a single method call or do I have to recreate the document?

mson 2008-12-13 16:14:42

Answer 2

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Ugh. I loathe PDFs. That being said, what's wrong with your current plain text or HTML emails? PDFs are inefficient and rather large file formats.

GregD 2008-12-13 15:44:35

It's much easier to provide consistent formatting in a pdf, for one thing. No idea what the author's answer is, of course. :)

Joel Meador 2008-12-13 15:45:52

my preference is for plain text. but they want what they want... i loathe pdfs...

mson 2008-12-13 16:11:05

Answer 3

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You can use iTextSharp to convert your html pages to pdf. Here's an example:

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string html = 
@"<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text/html; charset=utf-8"" />
</head>
<body>
  <p style=""color: red;"">Hello World</p>
</body>
</html>";

        Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
        using (Stream output = new FileStream("out.pdf", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
        using (StringReader htmlReader = new StringReader(html))
        using (XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(htmlReader))
        {
            PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
            HtmlParser.Parse(document, reader);
        }

    }
}

Darin Dimitrov 2008-12-13 16:31:45

Thank you sir! That was quite helpful.

mson 2008-12-13 21:28:18

the base string is just a div section <div>stuff</div>.the file gets created, but cannot be opened.does the code you posted work or was it just mockup?

mson 2008-12-15 15:47:37

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