Creating PDF out of HTML at client side

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In my MVC.net (C#) application, I am creating creating reports at client side using JQplot. The report generate is placed inside a placeholder on the page ('div' element).
My requirement says that I need to create a PDF having all the data of my page, for-example the page (HTML) may have report description in text and the report. All this HTML need to go in PDF file.

In brief : Entire HTML has to be written in PDF file.

How this can be done?

Posted 5-Dec-13 22:28pm

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asbis · Answer 1 · 2013-12-05T22:35:00

myHTMLTable.Border = 1;
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=ReportName.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);

//lblReportName.Visible = true;
hw.WriteLine("Header Text"); // add header to pdf file

pnlPerson.RenderControl(hw); ///pnlPerson is panel inside that your HTML table will come
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());

Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 5f, 0f);
HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
pdfDoc.Open();
htmlparser.Parse(sr);
pdfDoc.Close();
Response.Write(pdfDoc);
Response.End();

For this you have to use 3rd party tool iTextSharp>
May this will help