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;
}
var htmlContent = String.Format("<body>Hello world: {0}</body>", DateTime.Now);
var pdfBytes = (new NReco.PdfGenerator.HtmlToPdfConverter()).GeneratePdf(htmlContent);
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;
}
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.
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...
string htmlCode = "<p>This is a p tag</p>";
//use single thread to generate the pdf from above html code
Thread thread = new Thread(() =>
{ 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");
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();
}
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);
//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");
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
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("https://brave.com/"), "remoteURL"},
{new StringContent("0"), "marginTop" }
};
var result = await client.PostAsync(new Uri("http://localhost:3000/convert/url"), formContent);
await File.WriteAllBytesAsync("brave.com.pdf", await result.Content.ReadAsByteArrayAsync());
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
WriteLine(ex);
}
}
}
}
var p = new System.Diagnostics.Process()
{
StartInfo =
{
FileName = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe",
Arguments = @"/C --headless --disable-gpu --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw --print-to-pdf-no-header --print-to-pdf=""C:/Users/Abdul Rahman/Desktop/test.pdf"" ""C:/Users/Abdul Rahman/Desktop/grid.html""",
}
};
p.Start();
// ...then wait n milliseconds for exit (as after exit, it can't read the output)
p.WaitForExit(60000);
// read the exit code, close process
int returnCode = p.ExitCode;
p.Close();
public async Task<byte[]> ConvertHtmlToPdf(string html)
{
var directory = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonDocuments), "ApplicationName");
Directory.CreateDirectory(directory);
var filePath = Path.Combine(directory, $"{Guid.NewGuid()}.html");
await File.WriteAllTextAsync(filePath, html);
var driverOptions = new ChromeOptions();
// In headless mode, PDF writing is enabled by default (tested with driver major version 85)
driverOptions.AddArgument("headless");
using var driver = new ChromeDriver(driverOptions);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(filePath);
// Output a PDF of the first page in A4 size at 90% scale
var printOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{ "paperWidth", 210 / 25.4 },
{ "paperHeight", 297 / 25.4 },
{ "scale", 0.9 },
{ "pageRanges", "1" }
};
var printOutput = driver.ExecuteChromeCommandWithResult("Page.printToPDF", printOptions) as Dictionary<string, object>;
var pdf = Convert.FromBase64String(printOutput["data"] as string);
File.Delete(filePath);
return pdf;
}