Create a PDF using iTextSharp from HTML page with external CSS in a Web Service

Question

I have a js file that call a webservice to create a pdf of an html page I have. I'm using iTextSharp library for that, and I pass the html string as parameter of the web service to create it's pdf, but I want to keep the design. How can I do that. I have seen a lot of tutorial a try to implement the code without success.

Answer 1

AFAIK iTextSharp does not have an HTML layout engine (which is what you'll need to keep your design intact).

If your layout is simple then A Google search of "HTML to Pdf .NET component" will yield tons of results.

Our ActivePDF WebGrabber product will do that for you, but it might be overkill for a simple web service with low volume.

Answer 2

Thanks to all. I already made some tricks to keep design of html when created pdf in server side with iTextSharp. I add manually some clases to the css resolver just like this:

StyleAttrCSSResolver cssResolver = new StyleAttrCSSResolver(); cssResolver.AddCssFile(Context.Server.MapPath("/Content/FOUNDATION/css/PDF.css"), true); cssResolver.AddCss(".fontSizeTb table, td {font-size: 12px; }", true); cssResolver.AddCss(".ChangeH3 {font-size: 16px; padding-top: 20px; margin-top: 20px; vertical-align: bottom;}", true);