Click here to Skip to main content
15,885,978 members
Articles / Web Development / ASP.NET

Generate PDF documents from a HTML page using ASP.NET

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
3.34/5 (62 votes)
23 May 20041 min read 1.4M   34.1K   202  
Convert HTML to PDF from an ASPX page.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

namespace HtmlToPDF
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Summary description for _Default.
	/// </summary>
	public class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
	{
		protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button Button1;
		protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label Label1;
	
		private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			// Put user code to initialize the page here
		}

		#region Web Form Designer generated code
		override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
		{
			//
			// CODEGEN: This call is required by the ASP.NET Web Form Designer.
			//
			InitializeComponent();
			base.OnInit(e);
		}
		
		/// <summary>
		/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
		/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
		/// </summary>
		private void InitializeComponent()
		{    
			this.Button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.Button1_Click);
			this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);

		}
		#endregion

		private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			PDF.PDFGenerator pGen = new PDF.PDFGenerator(Server.MapPath(""));
			pGen.SetLandScape(false);
			string sFile = pGen.Run(Request.RawUrl);

			Response.Redirect("DisplayPDF.aspx?File=" + sFile);
		}
	}
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article has no explicit license attached to it but may contain usage terms in the article text or the download files themselves. If in doubt please contact the author via the discussion board below.

A list of licenses authors might use can be found here


Written By
Web Developer
United States United States
Al is just another Software Engineer working in C++, ASp.NET and C#. Enjoys snowboarding in Big Bear, and wait patiently for his daughters to be old enough to write code and snowboard.

Al is a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP

Blog

Comments and Discussions