Exporting table to pdf

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hello Everyone,

Greetings!!

im exporting a table that is present in aspx page to pdf(using itextsharp), its working fine but my problem is though it is showing the correct view in print preview but when it is exported to pdf the labels present in the table are scattered. may i know why is this happening??

thanks in advance..!!

Posted 24-Jul-13 1:36am

Swetha Bisa

Updated 24-Jul-13 1:37am

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Pheonyx 24-Jul-13 7:37am

How are you creating the PDF, can you show your code for that aspect of the process?

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Sarin VT 24-Jul-13 7:44am

You can map the table as an image.
Then there wont be any problems

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Srinivas Kalabarigi · Answer 1 · 2013-07-24T01:49:00

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Can you add your code for our review?

Posted 24-Jul-13 1:49am

Srinivas Kalabarigi

Sarin VT · Answer 2 · 2013-07-24T01:52:00

As i commented you can first convert the table into image. Then convert that image into a pdf file.

Converting aspx/html page into image

public Bitmap GenerateScreenshot(string url)
{
    // This method gets a screenshot of the webpage
    // rendered at its full size (height and width)
    return GenerateScreenshot(url, -1, -1);
}

public Bitmap GenerateScreenshot(string url, int width, int height)
{
    // Load the webpage into a WebBrowser control
    WebBrowser wb = new WebBrowser();
    wb.ScrollBarsEnabled = false;
    wb.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
    wb.Navigate(url);
    while (wb.ReadyState != WebBrowserReadyState.Complete) { Application.DoEvents(); }


    // Set the size of the WebBrowser control
    wb.Width = width;
    wb.Height = height;

    if (width == -1)
    {
        // Take Screenshot of the web pages full width
        wb.Width = wb.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width;
    }

    if (height == -1)
    {
        // Take Screenshot of the web pages full height
        wb.Height = wb.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Height;
    }

    // Get a Bitmap representation of the webpage as it's rendered in the WebBrowser control
    Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(wb.Width, wb.Height);
    wb.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, new Rectangle(0, 0, wb.Width, wb.Height));
    wb.Dispose();

    return bitmap;
}

Then write the code that image into pdf file.

1. create a new empty PDF document
2. add a blank page
3. get the XGraphics object
4. create the XImage from the source file
5. draw the image
6. save the PDF file

The code snippet to convert image to pdf is:

PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.Pages.Add(new PdfPage());
XGraphics xgr = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(doc.Pages[0]);
XImage img = XImage.FromFile(source);

xgr.DrawImage(img, 0, 0);
doc.Save(destinaton);
doc.Close();