How to convert Asp.Net page to PDF using C# code with out any dll?

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Is there any way to convert ASP.NET webpage to convert as a pdf with one button click with out using any dll

Posted 30-Mar-15 8:17am

shiva2239

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Mar-15 20:57pm

Strictly speaking, you cannot "convert" the page: it is something dynamic, and PDF is static, a kind of electronic paper. You can only represent one moment of the page life, at fixed page size, and so one. By the way, it makes very little sense.

How to do it "without any DLL"? What's the problem: learn both HTML and PDF format very well and write code. This is not something requiring expert advice, just a lot of work.

—SA

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Sebastiaan Meijerink · Answer 1 · 2015-03-30T21:47:00

Ideally you'd really need to convince someone to buy a good pdf converter libary.

If not, there is a way.

On the server you could setup a printer queue that prints to a PDF file. There are printerdrivers out there that can do this.

You could than send the rendered HTML to that printer queue en return the document that comes out of that. You do have to look at you're CSS and posible provide print media queries to fix outlining.

And experiment with what printer driver to use. The results range from acceptable to horrible.

Also because an HTML document is a flow document en and a PDF document is a fixed document. You will get issues with line breaking. You'll need to adress this through HTML/CSS which wasn't build to do that.

Obviously there is another way and that is to hardcode the PDF yourself.
However this would take years of experience, which why you should by a dll from a company that has that experience

Sebastiaan Meijerink · Answer 2 · 2015-03-30T08:31:00

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Why don't you want to use a dll? There are several libraries that can do this.

Posted 30-Mar-15 8:31am

Sebastiaan Meijerink

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shiva2239 31-Mar-15 2:03am

Because we do not have permissions in our organization for third party dlls