ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic websites, applications and services.
iTextSharp (now iText) is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in Java and .NET. iText was written by Bruno Lowagie. The source code was initially distributed as open source under the Mozilla Public License.
In this post, I will show how to convert a .aspx web page to pdf using itextsharp library.
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Pdf.aspx.cs" Inherits="Pdf" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:PlaceHolder ID="PlaceholderPdf" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>
<div>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
aspdotnetcodebook
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
cell1
</td>
<td>
cell2
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<asp:Label ID="lblLabel" runat="server" Text="Label Test"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html;
using iTextSharp.text.xml;
using System.Xml;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
public partial class Pdf : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
MemoryStream mem = new MemoryStream();
StreamWriter twr = new StreamWriter(mem);
HtmlTextWriter myWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(twr);
base.Render(myWriter);
myWriter.Flush();
myWriter.Dispose();
StreamReader strmRdr = new StreamReader(mem);
strmRdr.BaseStream.Position = 0;
string pageContent = strmRdr.ReadToEnd();
strmRdr.Dispose();
mem.Dispose();
writer.Write(pageContent);
CreatePDFDocument(pageContent);
}
public void CreatePDFDocument(string strHtml)
{
string strFileName = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("test.pdf");
// step 1: creation of a document-object
Document document = new Document();
// step 2:
// we create a writer that listens to the document
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(strFileName, FileMode.Create));
StringReader se = new StringReader(strHtml);
HTMLWorker obj = new HTMLWorker(document);
document.Open();
obj.Parse(se);
document.Close();
ShowPdf(strFileName);
}
public void ShowPdf(string strFileName)
{
Response.ClearContent();
Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + strFileName);
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.WriteFile(strFileName);
Response.Flush();
Response.Clear();
}
}