MVC - How to save html as word or pdf

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Can anybody please share a good example of how to save html content as Word or Pdf file using ASP.NET MVC? I am showing a result summary to user on my View page. I want to give a feature to save this summary in Word / Pdf format on click of "save" button.

I read about setting the content-disposition, and other third party dll's (like evopdf, etc) to achieve this. But not quiet getting how to use it in reality. Some sample code will surely help me.

Thanks in advance

Posted 20-Aug-12 21:52pm

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 1 · 2012-08-20T21:54:00

Solution 1

.Net does not have a inbuilt PDF support. You need to use a third party component for this. Check out Google[^], there are lot of free/paid components available.

I have used Aspose Words [^](it supports conversion to PDF as well), works quite well.

Posted 20-Aug-12 21:54pm

Manas Bhardwaj

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Prasad_Kulkarni 21-Aug-12 4:52am

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Manas Bhardwaj 21-Aug-12 5:13am

Thx :)

ridoy · Answer 2 · 2012-08-20T22:06:00

Solution 2

http://dotnet-magic.blogspot.com/2010/07/convert-html-to-word-document-using.html[^]
Generate PDF documents from a HTML page using ASP.NET[^]
http://forums.asp.net/t/1199774.aspx[^]

Posted 20-Aug-12 22:06pm

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A M SOMAN 21-Aug-12 4:36am

@ridoy: I am looking for MVC solution here as there is major difference in return type. The links you gave are talking about plain asp.net solutions.

Prasad_Kulkarni 21-Aug-12 4:52am

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ridoy 21-Aug-12 6:21am

see it..
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/260470/PDF-reporting-using-ASP-NET-MVC3

ridoy 21-Aug-12 6:22am

thanks Prasad

Sandip.Nascar · Answer 3 · 2012-08-20T22:35:00

Solution 3

As already answered, .Net has no inbuilt support.
You need 3rd party components to cater your needs.

Check the url,
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries[^]

You can also check evopdf(which is not free though, but will cater all your requirements for sure)

Hope this helps
cheers

Posted 20-Aug-12 22:35pm

Sandip.Nascar

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Prasad_Kulkarni 21-Aug-12 4:53am

Good answer +5