aspx to pdf conversion using c#

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Hi everyone,
I m working in asp.net from last 4 months. now i m arrive at the place where there is a need to convert a page from aspx to pdf. I tried using itextsharp but it fires error.

Actually my page contents some value from database that are bind in lables, one dynamic table generated according to the database values (sometimes 2 rows or 5 or more - all the data in table are in string format ) and some static part. Now i want to convert the whole page into pdf. Please help me to do this.

i tried so many codes suggested by the professionals but fail to do work. currently i used following code that fires the error - Input string was not in a correct format.
when converting a stirng to datetime, parse the string to take the date before putting each variable into the Datetime object. i m using below code to convert:

C#

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

        Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=FileName.pdf");

        Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);

iTextSharp.text.Document docc = new iTextSharp.text.Document(PageSize.A4);

        //Render PlaceHolder to temporary stream

        System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter();

        System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);

        //PlaceholderPdf.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
        PrintMemo.RenderControl(htmlWrite);

        string strrrr = stringWrite.ToString();
        strrrr = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strrrr, "", "");

        StringReader reader = new StringReader(stringWrite.ToString());

HTMLWorker parser = new HTMLWorker(docc);

PdfWriter.GetInstance(docc, Response.OutputStream);

        docc.Open();
        parser.Parse(reader);
        docc.Close();

Please help me.

Posted 16-Jul-12 23:36pm

kailash_tandel87

Updated 21-Mar-17 23:52pm

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

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Sebastian T Xavier · Answer 1 · 2012-07-17T02:58:00

Solution 1

Found similar question here....

How to export aspx page(HTML content) in pdf[^]

abcpdf [^]is a good third party tool for doing this.

Hope this helps...

Sebastian

Posted 17-Jul-12 2:58am

Sebastian T Xavier

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kailash_tandel87 18-Jul-12 4:28am

thanx for you valuable effort but its not working in my case, i m still trying with itextsharp. if you have any idea related to itextsharp or simillar then help me plz

kailash_tandel87 18-Jul-12 5:06am

<td id="PrintMemo">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" >
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="1px" width="1024px">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="5px" width="90%">

<tr>
<td align="center">
DEPARTMENT OF POSTS, INDIA
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">
O/o the <span id="lbl_deptname_a1">SSPOs</span>
<span id="lbl_division_a2">Gandhinagar</span>
,
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center">
<span id="lbl_city_a3" class="style2">Gandhinagar</span>
<span class="style2"> - <span id="lbl_pincode_a4">382024</span>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" width="80%">
<tr>
<td align="left">
No. : <span id="lbl_memoNo">Trg/B2/VDRW</span>
</td>
<td align="right">
Dated
<span id="lbl_date_a5">10/07/2012</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" colspan="2">
Ref : <span id="lbl_reference">PTC Vadpdara letter no: A2/Trg dated 25.06.2012</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" width="80%">
<tr>

Menala Raj kumar · Answer 2 · 2013-08-05T04:22:00

C#

protected void btnExportFromAspxtoPdf_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.Write("<script language='javascript'> { self.close() }</script>");
    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
    Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=TestPage.pdf");
    Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
    this.Page.RenderControl(hw);

    StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
    Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0f);
    HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
    PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
    pdfDoc.Open();
    htmlparser.Parse(sr);
    pdfDoc.Close();
    Response.Write(pdfDoc);
    Response.End();
}

Menala Raj kumar · Answer 3 · 2013-08-05T04:24:00

Use the following code in the Aspx to Pdf conversion button click..

C#

protected void btnExport_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
    Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=TestPage.pdf");
    Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
    this.Page.RenderControl(hw);

    StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
    Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0f);
    HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
    PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
    pdfDoc.Open();
    htmlparser.Parse(sr);
    pdfDoc.Close();
    Response.Write(pdfDoc);
    Response.End();
}

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