Convert HTML to PDF in NET

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I want to generate a PDF by passing HTML contents to a function  I have made use of iTextSharp for this but it does not perform well when it encounters tables and the layout just gets messy   Is there a better way

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It depends on any other requirements you have.

A really simple but not easily deployable solution is to use a WebBrowser control to load the Html and then using the Print method printing to a locally installed PDF printer. There are several free PDF printers available and the WebBrowser control is a part of the .Net framework.

EDIT: If you Html is XHtml you can use PDFizer to do the job.

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It seems like so far the best free  NET solution is the TuesPechkin library which is a wrapper around the wkhtmltopdf native library   I ve now used the single-threaded version to convert a few thousand HTML strings to PDF files and it seems to work great  It s supposed to also work in multi-threaded environments  IIS  for example  but I haven t tested that   Also since I wanted to use the latest version of wkhtmltopdf  0 12 5 at the time of writing   I downloaded the DLL from the official website  copied it to my project root  set copy to output to true  and initialized the library like so   var dllDir   AppDomain CurrentDomain BaseDirectory  Converter   new StandardConverter new PdfToolset new StaticDeployment dllDir       Above code will look exactly for  wkhtmltox dll   so don t rename the file  I used the 64-bit version of the DLL   Make sure you read the instructions for multi-threaded environments  as you will have to initialize it only once per app lifecycle so you ll need to put it in a singleton or something

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Another trick you can use WebBrowser control  below is my full working code  Assigning Url to text box control in my case    protected void Page Load object sender  EventArgs e        txtweburl Text    https   www google com          Below is code for generate screeen using thread    protected void btnscreenshot click object sender  EventArgs e              btnscreenshot Visible   false      allpanels Visible   true      Thread thread   new Thread GenerateThumbnail       thread SetApartmentState ApartmentState STA       thread Start        thread Join        private void GenerateThumbnail             btnscreenshot Visible   false      WebBrowser webrowse   new WebBrowser        webrowse ScrollBarsEnabled   false      webrowse AllowNavigation   true      string url   txtweburl Text Trim        webrowse Navigate url       webrowse Width   1400      webrowse Height   50000       webrowse DocumentCompleted    webbrowse DocumentCompleted      while  webrowse ReadyState    WebBrowserReadyState Complete                System Windows Forms Application DoEvents              In below code I am saving the pdf file after download           private void webbrowse DocumentCompleted object sender  WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e           btnscreenshot Visible   false      string folderPath   Server MapPath    ImageFiles          WebBrowser webrowse   sender as WebBrowser        Bitmap bitmap   new Bitmap webrowse Width  webrowse Height        Bitmap bitmap   new Bitmap webrowse Width  webrowse Height  PixelFormat Format16bppRgb565        webrowse DrawToBitmap bitmap  webrowse Bounds         string Systemimagedownloadpath   System Configuration ConfigurationManager AppSettings  Systemimagedownloadpath   ToString        string fullOutputPath   Systemimagedownloadpath   Request QueryString  VisitedId   ToString       png       MemoryStream stream   new MemoryStream        bitmap Save fullOutputPath  System Drawing Imaging ImageFormat Jpeg            generating pdf code       Document pdfDoc   new Document new iTextSharp text Rectangle 1100f  20000 25f         PdfWriter writer   PdfWriter GetInstance pdfDoc  Response OutputStream        pdfDoc Open         iTextSharp text Image img   iTextSharp text Image GetInstance fullOutputPath           img ScaleAbsoluteHeight 20000        img ScaleAbsoluteWidth 1024             pdfDoc Add img        pdfDoc Close           Download the PDF file       Response ContentType    application pdf        Response AddHeader  content-disposition    attachment filename ImageExport pdf         Response Cache SetCacheability HttpCacheability NoCache        Response Write pdfDoc        Response End          You can also refer my oldest post for more information  Navigation to the webpage was canceled getting message in asp net web form

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Update  I would now recommend PupeteerSharp over wkhtmltopdf   Try wkhtmtopdf  It is the best tool I have found so far   For  NET  you may use this small library to easily invoke wkhtmtopdf command line utility

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I was also looking for this a while back  I ran into HTMLDOC http   www easysw com htmldoc  which is a free open source command line app that takes an HTML file as an argument and spits out a PDF from it  It s worked for me pretty well for my side project  but it all depends on what you actually need    The company that makes it sells the compiled binaries  but you are free to download and compile from source and use it for free  I managed to compile a pretty recent revision  for version 1 9  and I intend on releasing a binary installer for it in a few days  so if you re interested I can provide a link to it as soon as I post it   Edit  2 25 2014   Seems like the docs and site moved to http   www msweet org projects php Z1

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Below is an example of converting html   css to PDF using iTextSharp  iTextSharp   itextsharp xmlworker      using iTextSharp text  using iTextSharp text pdf  using iTextSharp tool xml    byte   pdf     result will be here  var cssText   File ReadAllText MapPath    css test css     var html   File ReadAllText MapPath    css test html      using  var memoryStream   new MemoryStream              var document   new Document PageSize A4  50  50  60  60           var writer   PdfWriter GetInstance document  memoryStream           document Open             using  var cssMemoryStream   new MemoryStream System Text Encoding UTF8 GetBytes cssText                          using  var htmlMemoryStream   new MemoryStream System Text Encoding UTF8 GetBytes html                                  XMLWorkerHelper GetInstance   ParseXHtml writer  document  htmlMemoryStream  cssMemoryStream                                    document Close             pdf   memoryStream ToArray

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ABCpdf NET  http   www websupergoo com abcpdf-5 htm   We use and recommend   Very good component  it not only convert a webpage to PDF like an image but really convert text  image  formatting  etc     It s not free but it s cheap

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EDIT  New Suggestion  HTML Renderer for PDF using PdfSharp    After trying wkhtmltopdf and suggesting to avoid it   HtmlRenderer PdfSharp is a 100  fully C  managed code  easy to use  thread safe and most importantly FREE  New BSD License  solution   Usage   Download HtmlRenderer PdfSharp nuget package   Use Example Method   public static Byte   PdfSharpConvert String html        Byte   res   null      using  MemoryStream ms   new MemoryStream                  var pdf   TheArtOfDev HtmlRenderer PdfSharp PdfGenerator GeneratePdf html  PdfSharp PageSize A4           pdf Save ms           res   ms ToArray              return res       A very Good Alternate Is a Free Version of iTextSharp  Until version 4 1 6 iTextSharp was licensed under the LGPL licence and versions until 4 16  or there may be also forks  are available as packages and can be freely used  Of course someone can use the continued 5  paid version   I tried to integrate wkhtmltopdf solutions on my project and had a bunch of hurdles   I personally would avoid using wkhtmltopdf - based solutions on Hosted Enterprise applications for the following reasons    First of all wkhtmltopdf is C   implemented not C   and you will experience various problems embedding it within your C  code  especially while switching  between 32bit and 64bit builds of your project  Had to try several workarounds including conditional project building etc  etc  just to avoid  invalid format exceptions  on different machines  If you manage your own virtual machine its ok  But if your project is running within a constrained environment like  Azure  Actually is impossible withing azure as mentioned by the TuesPenchin author     Elastic Beanstalk etc  it s a nightmare to configure that environment only for wkhtmltopdf to work  wkhtmltopdf is creating files within your server so you have to manage user permissions and grant  write  access to where wkhtmltopdf is running  Wkhtmltopdf is running as a standalone application  so its not managed by your IIS application pool  So you have to either host it as a service on another machine or you will experience processing spikes and memory consumption within your production server  It uses temp files to generate the pdf  and in cases Like AWS EC2 which has really slow disk i o it is a big performance problem  The most hated  Unable to load DLL  wkhtmltox dll   error reported by many users    --- PRE Edit Section ---   For anyone who want to generate pdf from html in simpler applications   environments I leave my old post as suggestion   TuesPechkin   https   www nuget org packages TuesPechkin   or Especially For MVC Web Applications   But I think you may use it in any  net application   Rotativa  https   www nuget org packages Rotativa   They both utilize the  wkhtmtopdf binary for converting html to pdf  Which uses the webkit engine for rendering the pages so it can also parse css style sheets   They provide easy to use seamless integration with  C     Rotativa can also generate directly PDFs from any Razor View    Additionally for real world web applications they also manage thread safety etc

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You can also check Spire  it allow you to create HTML to PDF with this simple piece of code   string htmlCode     lt p gt This is a p tag lt  p gt       use single thread to generate the pdf from above html code Thread thread   new Thread      gt    pdf LoadFromHTML htmlCode  false  setting  htmlLayoutFormat       thread SetApartmentState ApartmentState STA   thread Start    thread Join        Save the file to PDF and preview it  pdf SaveToFile  output pdf    System Diagnostics Process Start  output pdf      Detailed article    How to convert HTML to PDF in asp net C

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PDF Vision is good  However  you have to have Full Trust to use it   I already emailed and asked why my HTML wasn t being converted on the server but it worked fine on localhost

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I highly recommend NReco  seriously  It has the free and paid version  and really worth it  It uses wkhtmtopdf in background  but you just need one assembly  Fantastic   Example of use   Install via NuGet   var htmlContent   String Format   lt body gt Hello world   0  lt  body gt    DateTime Now   var pdfBytes    new NReco PdfGenerator HtmlToPdfConverter    GeneratePdf htmlContent     Disclaimer  I m not the developer  just a fan of the project

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As a representative of HiQPdf Software I believe the best solution is HiQPdf HTML to PDF converter for  NET  It contains the most advanced HTML5  CSS3  SVG and JavaScript rendering engine on market  There is also a free version of the HTML to PDF library which you can use to produce for free up to 3 PDF pages  The minimal C  code to produce a PDF as a byte   from a HTML page is   HtmlToPdf htmlToPdfConverter   new HtmlToPdf        set PDF page size  orientation and margins htmlToPdfConverter Document PageSize   PdfPageSize A4  htmlToPdfConverter Document PageOrientation   PdfPageOrientation Portrait  htmlToPdfConverter Document Margins   new PdfMargins 0       convert HTML to PDF  byte   pdfBuffer   htmlToPdfConverter ConvertUrlToMemory url     You can find more detailed examples both for ASP NET and MVC in HiQPdf HTML to PDF Converter examples repository

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Another suggestion it to try the solution by https   grabz it    They provide a nice  NET API to catch screenshots and manipulate it in an easy and flexible approach   To use it in your app you will need to first get key   secret and download the  NET SDK  it s free     Now a short example of using it   To use the API you will first need to create an instance of the GrabzItClient class  passing your application key and application secret from your GrabzIt account to the constructor  as shown in the below example     Create the GrabzItClient class   Replace  APPLICATION KEY    APPLICATION SECRET  with the values from your account  private GrabzItClient grabzIt   GrabzItClient Create  Sign in to view your Application Key    Sign in to view your Application Secret      Now  to convert the HTML to PDF all you need to do it   grabzIt HTMLToPDF   lt html gt  lt body gt  lt h1 gt Hello World  lt  h1 gt  lt  body gt  lt  html gt       You can convert to image as well   grabzIt HTMLToImage   lt html gt  lt body gt  lt h1 gt Hello World  lt  h1 gt  lt  body gt  lt  html gt            Next you need to save the image  You can use one of the two save methods available  Save if publicly accessible callback handle available and SaveTo if not  Check the documentation for details

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This is a free library and works very easily   OpenHtmlToPdf  string timeStampForPdfName   DateTime Now ToString  yyMMddHHmmssff     string serverPath   System Web Hosting HostingEnvironment MapPath    FolderName    string pdfSavePath   Path Combine  serverPath   FileName    timeStampForPdfName     FileExtension        OpenHtmlToPdf Library used for Performing PDF Conversion var pdf   Pdf From HTML String  Content       FOr writing to file from a ByteArray  File WriteAllBytes pdfSavePath  pdf ToArray        Requires System Linq

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There s also a new web-based document generation app - DocRaptor com  Seems easy to use  and there s a free option

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Last Updated  October 2020 This is the list of options for HTML to PDF conversion in  NET that I have put together  some free some paid   GemBox Document  https   www nuget org packages GemBox Document  Free  up to 20 paragraphs   680 - https   www gemboxsoftware com document pricelist https   www gemboxsoftware com document examples c-sharp-convert-html-to-pdf 307   PDF Metamorphosis  Net  https   www nuget org packages sautinsoft pdfmetamorphosis   539 -  1078 - https   www sautinsoft com products pdf-metamorphosis order php https   www sautinsoft com products pdf-metamorphosis convert-html-to-pdf-dotnet-csharp php   HtmlRenderer PdfSharp  https   www nuget org packages HtmlRenderer PdfSharp 1 5 1-beta1 BSD-UNSPECIFIED License   PuppeteerSharp  https   www puppeteersharp com examples index html MIT License https   github com kblok puppeteer-sharp   EO Pdf  https   www nuget org packages EO Pdf   799 - https   www essentialobjects com Purchase aspx f 3   WnvHtmlToPdf x64  https   www nuget org packages WnvHtmlToPdf x64   750 -  1600 - http   www winnovative-software com Buy aspx demo - http   www winnovative-software com demo default aspx   IronPdf  https   www nuget org packages IronPdf   399 -  1599 - https   ironpdf com licensing  https   ironpdf com examples using-html-to-create-a-pdf    Spire PDF  https   www nuget org packages Spire PDF  Free  up to 10 pages   599 -  1799 - https   www e-iceblue com Buy Spire PDF html https   www e-iceblue com Tutorials Spire PDF Spire PDF-Program-Guide Convert-HTML-to-PDF-Customize-HTML-to-PDF-Conversion-by-Yourself html   Aspose Html  https   www nuget org packages Aspose Html   599 -  1797 - https   purchase aspose com pricing html net https   docs aspose com html net html-to-pdf-conversion    EvoPDF  https   www nuget org packages EvoPDF   450 -  1200 - http   www evopdf com buy aspx   ExpertPdfHtmlToPdf  https   www nuget org packages ExpertPdfHtmlToPdf   550 -  1200 - https   www html-to-pdf net Pricing aspx   Zetpdf  https   zetpdf com  299 -  599 - https   zetpdf com pricing  Is not a well know or supported library - ZetPDF - Does anyone know the background of this Product    PDFtron  https   www pdftron com documentation samples cs HTML2PDFTes  4000 year - https   www pdftron com licensing    WkHtmlToXSharp  https   github com pruiz WkHtmlToXSharp Free Concurrent conversion is implemented as processing queue    SelectPDF  https   www nuget org packages Select HtmlToPdf  Free  up to 5 pages   499 -  799 - https   selectpdf com pricing  https   selectpdf com pdf-library-for-net     If none of the options above help you you can always search the NuGet packages  https   www nuget org packages q html pdf

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To convert HTML to PDF in C  use ABCpdf   ABCpdf can make use of the Gecko or Trident rendering engines  so your HTML table will look the same as it appears in FireFox and Internet Explorer   There s an on-line demo of ABCpdf at www abcpdfeditor com  You could use this to check out how your tables will render first  without needing to download and install software   For rendering entire web pages you ll need the AddImageUrl or AddImageHtml functions  But if all you want to do is simply add HTML styled text then you could try the AddHtml function  as below   Doc theDoc   new Doc    theDoc FontSize   72  theDoc AddHtml   lt b gt Some HTML styled text lt  b gt     theDoc Save Server MapPath  docaddhtml pdf     theDoc Clear      ABCpdf is a commercial software title  however the standard edition can often be obtained for free under special offer

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2018 s update  and Let s use standard HTML CSS PDF equation   There are good news for HTML-to-PDF demands  As this answer showed  the W3C standard css-break-3 will solve the problem    It is a Candidate Recommendation with plan to turn into definitive Recommendation in 2017 or 2018  after tests   As not-so-standard there are solutions  with plugins for C   as showed by print-css rocks

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Here is a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf dll by pruiz  And a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf exe by Codaxy  - also on nuget

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Winnovative offer a  Net PDF library that supports HTML input   They offer an unlimited free trial   Depending on how you wish to deploy your project  this might be sufficient

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Essential PDF can be used to convert HTML to PDF  C  sample  The sample linked to here is ASP NET based  but the library can be used from Windows Forms  WPF  ASP NET Webforms  and ASP NET MVC  The library offers the option of using different HTML rendering engines   Internet Explorer  default  and WebKit  best output    The whole suite of controls is available for free  commercial applications also  through the community license program if you qualify  The community license is the full product with no limitations or watermarks   Note  I work for Syncfusion

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Most HTML to PDF converter relies on IE to do the HTML parsing and rendering  This can break when user updates their IE  Here is one that does not rely on IE   The code is something like this   EO Pdf HtmlToPdf ConvertHtml htmlText  pdfFileName     Like many other converters  you can pass text  file name  or Url  The result can be saved into a file or a stream

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If you want user to download the pdf of rendered page in the browser then the easiest solution to the problem is  window print       on client side it will prompt user to save pdf of current page  You can also customize the appearance of pdf by linking style   lt link rel  stylesheet  type  text css  href  print css  media  print  gt    print css is applied to the html while printing   Limitation  You can t store the file on server side  User prompt to print the page than he had to save page manually  Page must to be rendered in a tab

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I recently performed a PoC regarding HTML to PDF conversion and wanted to share my results    My favorite by far is OpenHtmlToPdf  Advantages of this tool    Very good HTML compatibility  e g  it was the only tool in my example that correctly repeated table headers when a table spanned multiple pages  Fluent API Free and OpenSource  Creative Commons Attribution 3 0 license  Available via NuGet   Other tools tested    ExpertPDF  http   www html-to-pdf net   IronPDF  http   ironpdf com   iTextSharp  https   sourceforge net projects itextsharp   NReco PDF Creator for  NET  http   www nrecosite com pdf generator net aspx  HTML renderer for PDF Sharp  https   www nuget org packages HtmlRenderer PdfSharp   SelectPDF community edition  http   selectpdf com community-edition

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Quite likely most projects will wrap a C C   Engine rather than implementing a C  solution from scratch  Try Project Gotenberg  To test it docker run --rm -p 3000 3000 thecodingmachine gotenberg 6  Curl sample curl --request POST       --url http   localhost 3000 convert url       --header  Content-Type  multipart form-data        --form remoteURL https   brave com       --form marginTop 0       --form marginBottom 0       --form marginLeft 0       --form marginRight 0       -o result pdf  C  sample cs using System  using System Net Http  using System Threading Tasks  using System IO  using static System Console   namespace Gotenberg       class Program               public static async Task Main string   args                        try                               var client   new HttpClient                                var formContent   new MultipartFormDataContent                                                new StringContent  quot https   brave com  quot     quot remoteURL quot                             new StringContent  quot 0 quot     quot marginTop quot                                           var result   await client PostAsync new Uri  quot http   localhost 3000 convert url quot    formContent                   await File WriteAllBytesAsync  quot duckduck com pdf quot   await result Content ReadAsByteArrayAsync                               catch  Exception ex                                WriteLine ex                                    To compile csc sample cs -langversion latest -reference System Net Http dll  amp  amp  mono   sample exe

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I m the author of the Rotativa package  It allows to create PDF files directly from razor views   https   www nuget org packages Rotativa   Trivial to use and you have full control on the layout since you can use razor views with data from your Model and ViewBag container   I developed a SaaS version on Azure  It makes it even easier to use it from WebApi or any  Net app  service  Azure website  Azure webjob  whatever runs  Net    http   www rotativahq com   Free accounts available

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I found the following library more effective in converting html to pdf  nuget  https   www nuget org packages Select HtmlToPdf

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PDFmyURL recently released a  NET component for web page   HTML to PDF conversion as well  This has a very user friendly interface  for example   PDFmyURL pdf   new PDFmyURL  yourlicensekey    pdf ConvertURL  http   www example com   Application StartupPath      example pdf      Documentation  PDFmyURL  NET component documentation  Disclaimer  I work for the company that owns PDFmyURL

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You need to use a commercial library if you need perfect html rendering in pdf   ExpertPdf Html To Pdf Converter is very easy to use and it supports the latest html5 css3  You can either convert an entire url to pdf   using ExpertPdf HtmlToPdf   byte   pdfBytes   new PdfConverter   GetPdfBytesFromUrl url     or a html string   using ExpertPdf HtmlToPdf   byte   pdfBytes   new PdfConverter   GetPdfBytesFromHtmlString html  baseUrl     You also have the alternative to directly save the generated pdf document to a Stream of file on the disk

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You can use Google Chrome print-to-pdf feature from its headless mode  I found this to be the simplest yet the most robust method   var url    https   stackoverflow com questions 564650 convert-html-to-pdf-in-net   var chromePath     C  Program Files  x86  Google Chrome Application chrome exe   var output   Path Combine Environment CurrentDirectory   printout pdf    using  var p   new Process                  p StartInfo FileName   chromePath          p StartInfo Arguments     --headless --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf  output   url            p Start            p WaitForExit

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Try this PDF Duo  Net converting component for converting HTML to PDF from ASP NET application without using additional dlls   You can pass the HTML string or file  or stream to generate the PDF  Use the code below  Example C     string file html     K  hdoc html      string file pdf     K  new pdf      try             DuoDimension HtmlToPdf conv   new DuoDimension HtmlToPdf           conv OpenHTML file html          conv SavePDF file pdf          textBox4 Text    C  Example  Converting succeeded             Info   C  VB examples you can find at  http   www duodimension com html pdf asp net component html pdf aspx

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I used ExpertPDF Html To Pdf Converter  Does a decent job  Unfortunatelly  it s not free

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Already if you are using itextsharp dll  no need to add third party dll s plugin   I think you are using htmlworker instead of it use xmlworker you can easily convert your html to pdf  Some css won t work they are Supported CSS Full Explain with example Reference Click here             MemoryStream memStream   new MemoryStream            TextReader xmlString   new StringReader outXml           using  Document document   new Document                          PdfWriter writer   PdfWriter GetInstance document  memStream                 document SetPageSize iTextSharp text PageSize A4               document Open                byte   byteArray   System Text Encoding UTF8 GetBytes outXml               MemoryStream ms   new MemoryStream byteArray               XMLWorkerHelper GetInstance   ParseXHtml writer  document  ms  System Text Encoding UTF8               document Close                       Response ContentType    application pdf           Response AddHeader  content-disposition    attachment filename     filename     pdf            Response Cache SetCacheability HttpCacheability NoCache           Response BinaryWrite memStream ToArray             Response End            Response Flush

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If you don t really need a true  Net PDF library  there are numerous free HTML to PDF tools  many of which can run from a command-line   One solution would be to pick one of those and then write a thin wrapper around that in C    E g   as done in this tutorial

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Ok  using this technologies       FlyingSaucer Project IKVM Stub Boo   The src can be downloaded from here it needs nant

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Best Tool i have found and used for generating PDF of javascript and styles rendered views or html pages is phantomJS   Download the  exe file with the rasterize js function found in root of exe of example folder and put inside solution   It Even allows you to download the file in any code without opening that file also it also allows to download the file when the styles and specially jquery are applied   Following code generate PDF File    public ActionResult DownloadHighChartHtml         string serverPath   Server MapPath    phantomjs         string filename   DateTime Now ToString  ddMMyyyy hhmmss       pdf       string Url    http   wwwabc com        new Thread new ParameterizedThreadStart x   gt                ExecuteCommand string Format  cd  0   amp  E   amp  phantomjs rasterize js  1   2    A4     serverPath  Url  filename                                 E  is the drive for server mappath         Start         var filePath   Path Combine Server MapPath    phantomjs     filename        var stream   new MemoryStream        byte   bytes   DoWhile filePath        Response ContentType    application pdf       Response AddHeader  content-disposition    attachment filename Image pdf        Response OutputStream Write bytes  0  bytes Length       Response End        return RedirectToAction  HighChart         private void ExecuteCommand string Command        try               ProcessStartInfo ProcessInfo          Process Process           ProcessInfo   new ProcessStartInfo  cmd exe     K     Command            ProcessInfo CreateNoWindow   true          ProcessInfo UseShellExecute   false           Process   Process Start ProcessInfo             catch         private byte   DoWhile string filePath        byte   bytes   new byte 0       bool fail   true       while  fail                try                       using  FileStream file   new FileStream filePath  FileMode Open  FileAccess Read                                 bytes   new byte file Length                   file Read bytes  0   int file Length                              fail   false                    catch                       Thread Sleep 1000                        System IO File Delete filePath       return bytes

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Instead of parsing HTML directly to PDF  you can create an Bitmap of your HTML-page and then insert the Bitmap into your PDF  using for example iTextSharp   Here s a code how to get an Bitmap of an URL  I found it somewhere here on SO  if I find the source I ll link it   public System Drawing Bitmap HTMLToImage String strHTML        System Drawing Bitmap myBitmap   null       System Threading Thread myThread   new System Threading Thread delegate                    create a hidden web browser  which will navigate to the page         System Windows Forms WebBrowser myWebBrowser   new System Windows Forms WebBrowser               we don t want scrollbars on our image         myWebBrowser ScrollBarsEnabled   false             don t let any errors shine through         myWebBrowser ScriptErrorsSuppressed   true             let s load up that page              myWebBrowser Navigate  about blank                wait until the page is fully loaded         while  myWebBrowser ReadyState    System Windows Forms WebBrowserReadyState Complete              System Windows Forms Application DoEvents             myWebBrowser Document Body InnerHtml   strHTML              set the size of our web browser to be the same size as the page         int intScrollPadding   20          int intDocumentWidth   myWebBrowser Document Body ScrollRectangle Width   intScrollPadding          int intDocumentHeight   myWebBrowser Document Body ScrollRectangle Height   intScrollPadding          myWebBrowser Width   intDocumentWidth          myWebBrowser Height   intDocumentHeight             a bitmap that we will draw to         myBitmap   new System Drawing Bitmap intDocumentWidth - intScrollPadding  intDocumentHeight - intScrollPadding              draw the web browser to the bitmap         myWebBrowser DrawToBitmap myBitmap  new System Drawing Rectangle 0  0  intDocumentWidth - intScrollPadding  intDocumentHeight - intScrollPadding                myThread SetApartmentState System Threading ApartmentState STA       myThread Start        myThread Join         return myBitmap

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With Winnovative HTML to PDF converter you can convert a HTML string in a single line  byte   outPdfBuffer   htmlToPdfConverter ConvertHtml htmlString  baseUrl     The base URL is used to resolve the images referenced by relative URLs in HTML string  Alternatively you can use full URLs in HTML or embed images using src  data image png  for image tag   In answer to  fubaar  user comment about Winnovative converter  a correction is necessary  The converter does not use IE as rendering engine  It actually does not depend on any installed software and the rendering is compatible with WebKit engine

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