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Hi Hamang,
When I'm exproting my placeholder to pdf. I'm getting Unnecessary spaces for table cells. Please can you help me for this.

Rajasekhar…

"The library has a really understandable API for developers that are not familiar with the PDF specification, me beeing one of them"

What are you referring to? There IS NOT a API for this product just posts on forums from developers in the need for an API…

Christoffer, I agree that the the documentation is somewhat lacking. You can read the iTextsharp tutorials at http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/tutorial/index.html and there are some discussions over at http://www.nabble.com/iTextSharp-f4188.html. The API however, is pretty straight forward and understandable in my opinion.

It has long been looking for this information, Thank you for your work.

By itextsharp.dll i can display all html page data into pdf but for table its boder color get black. please suggest solution.
waiting for reply!!

@saharsh, it's not default supported, as with many of the styles. You need to add this by yourself. I have updated the article with the code.

Can u pls send me the complete sample working code , as there is some issue while using HtlWorkwer..

thanks in advance..

thanks, another waste of time.

Hi,

Great article btw, it's been a godsend for me.

I have a question which I hope you can help with, I am using your method detailed above for converting HTML into a PDF but some of the text on my html page is in czech and unfortunately some of the characters are ommited from the pdf as the default font for the page does not support them.

I have done some digging around and it looks like I need to change the font Codepage to cp1250 in order to support the special characters.

Could you give any pointers on how this can be achieved please….?

Thanks in advance

James

Really you gave me good solution for my issue thank you very much

Wonderful article, it helped me alot..

Thanks….:)

Great Article thanks,but I'am having problem about characters in gridview.Some turkish characters do not seem.Can we make pdf that support utf-8 encoding or something else.

Hi,

can you send me updated Dll? i can not find it anywhere on web.

i am facing problems like background color of table cell.

Thanks,
Mahavir Shah
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Can you please provide full sample code for conversion from html to pdf ..thanks in advance…anc

Picture is not exporting how could i export picture?

hello,
first of all thank u very much i got pdf file from asp.net page using this article . but i have one problem how can remove unnecessry space in pdf file. Inshort i want to well fromated file n if possible give me code for display imag also in pdf file.

hello Khem Raj
there are two way for images
1. give online path for the image
2. following code

doc.Open();
//add an image to document
iTextSharp.text.Image img1 = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Request.MapPath("~/Images/RelIcon-Pdf.jpg"));
img1.Alignment = iTextSharp.text.Image.TITLE;
img1.ScalePercent(100f); // change it's size
doc.Add(img1);

// end of code for image
// here start your code

It looks as though the PDF is trying to create but keep getting "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired."

Any advice?

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hey doc has not footer property and I cant create HeaderFooter

This is a nice article. But i am facing problem when i need to parse the HTML having the Fusion Chart. It will not parse the HTML throwing the ERROR.
Please help me if you have any sort of idea regarding this.

Regards,
TJ

HeaderFooter class i am not getting. i think i missed the namespace for that. Does any body have idea on that?

Thanks for giving good article.but i have one doubt
\text\html\simpleparser\FactoryProperties.cs
what is this path .i am not getting where to use that for css.
Thanks in advance

Thanks man. I am looking for this coding.

I am very happy to see this post. can you please provide after converting pdf. how to allow user to print it. i have print button on aspx page . when they click on that they need to print it using pdf one

hello,
Plz can you help me??
I want output pdf with html and css.
i searched lot but cant found any satisfactory solution

it is very urgent..

iTextSharp is good but it can't do what this html to pdf converter can do.

I have a doubt when you talking on:
"Open \text\html\simpleparser\FactoryProperties.cs. In the InsertStyle method add the following code to the foreach loop:"
i didn't understand where is this code?

Convsert to datagrid to pdf
=====================================================================================\
Using 3.0.3.0 version of iTextSharp.dll
=====================================================================================

Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 0, 0, 50, 50);
System.IO.MemoryStream msReport = new System.IO.MemoryStream();

try
{

PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, msReport);

document.AddAuthor("Vimal Lak");
document.AddSubject("Export to PDF");

document.Open();

iTextSharp.text.Table datatable = new iTextSharp.text.Table(gridlastthree.Columns.Count);
datatable.Padding = 2;
datatable.Spacing = 0;

float[] headerwidths = new float[gridlastthree.Columns.Count];
for (int i = 0; i < gridlastthree.Columns.Count; i++)
{
headerwidths[i] = 20;
}
datatable.Widths = headerwidths;

Cell cell = new Cell(new Phrase("Previous SRS History Of Vehicle No :"+ Label2.Text, FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 16, Font.BOLD)));
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
cell.Leading = 30;
cell.Colspan = 5;
cell.Border = Rectangle.NO_BORDER;
// cell.BackgroundColor = new iTextSharp.text.Color(System.Drawing.Color.Gray);
cell.BackgroundColor = new iTextSharp.text.Color(System.Drawing.Color.SteelBlue);
datatable.AddCell(cell);

datatable.DefaultCellBorderWidth = 1;
datatable.DefaultHorizontalAlignment = 1;
datatable.DefaultRowspan = 2;
datatable.AddCell("Sr.No");

datatable.AddCell("SRS NO");
datatable.AddCell("K.M. Reading");
datatable.AddCell("SRS DATE");
datatable.AddCell("Amount");
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < gridlastthree.Items.Count; i++)
{
datatable.DefaultHorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_LEFT;
count = i + 1;
datatable.AddCell(count.ToString());

datatable.AddCell(gridlastthree.Items[i].Cells[1].Text);
datatable.AddCell(gridlastthree.Items[i].Cells[2].Text);
datatable.AddCell(gridlastthree.Items[i].Cells[3].Text);
datatable.AddCell(gridlastthree.Items[i].Cells[4].Text);
}
document.Add(datatable);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
Response.Write(e);
}
document.Close();
Response.Clear();
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=Report.pdf");
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.BinaryWrite(msReport.ToArray());
Response.End();
=====================================================================================
Using 4.1.2.0 Version of ITextSharp.dll
=====================================================================================
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition","attachment;filename=GridViewExport.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
gridlastthree.AllowPaging = false;

gridlastthree.RenderControl(hw);
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 10f, 0f);
HTMLWorker parser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
pdfDoc.Open();
parser.Parse(sr);
pdfDoc.Close();

Response.End();

HtmlForm form = new HtmlForm();

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

HtmlTextWriter hTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);

string html = sw.ToString();
string htmlDisplayText = @"<html><body bgcolor="red"><h4>Dear bishnu2</h4> your address pdp    isAn early version of the patterns was workshopped at PLoP After several internal workshops and updates, a later version was
workshopped at PLoP  The patterns are now mature enough that I teach a
class based on the patterns at AG Communication
Systems.
                    Copyright © 1999 AG
Communication Systems Corporation
</body></html>";
htmlDisplayText = htmlDisplayText.Replace("{EMPLOYEETABLE}", html);
Document document = new Document();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, ms);
StringReader se = new StringReader(htmlDisplayText);
HTMLWorker obj = new HTMLWorker(document);
document.Open();
obj.Parse(se);
// step 5: we close the document
document.Close();
Response.Clear();
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=report.pdf");
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.Buffer = true;
Response.OutputStream.Write(ms.GetBuffer(), 0, ms.GetBuffer().Length);
Response.OutputStream.Flush();
Response.End();

Thank you very Mr: Vimal Lak
U save my time a lot god bless u

I'm using iTextSharp version 5.1.2. There is no FactoryProperties.cs file, no InsertStyle method, and IncTable.cs file. How can I modify iTextSharp's source to get background color and table border color? I can't figure out how to achive that functionality in this version.
Thnx!

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I tried the above code (without Grid and with iTextSharp 5+) version with some modifications. Strangely, there is no error but the PDF that is rendered is BLANK.
Does the parser.parse(reader) call automatically adds parsed HTML to PDF?
If yes, then it is not happening in my case.
Any ideas?

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thks..

I'm using iTextSharp version 5.1.2. There is no FactoryProperties.cs file, no InsertStyle method, and IncTable.cs file. How can I modify iTextSharp's source to get background color and table border color? I can't figure out how to achive that functionality in this version.
Thnx!

i found FactoryProperties.cs in 5.0 version when i include your snippet its giving me error

Cannot implicitly convert type 'iTextSharp.text.BaseColor' to 'System.Drawing.Color'

at line
Color c = Markup.DecodeColor(prop[key]);

how to fix this error..

i am using itextsharp 5.1.3 version in that i am not able to find the factoryprooerties.cs, my application is converting html to pdf but table width and styles are not proper according to styles..plz help me out in this..

Hmm.. on button click, a .pdf is generated, but with this error in the .pdf that opens:

Error! Unable to cast object of type 'iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.CellWrapper' to type
'iTextSharp.text.Paragraph'.

Can you show how you would also add page numbers to this? I've got this working, but am not sure how to add x of y when using your sample.

Love your samples for changing styles in gridviews, but like Ananth, not finding them in the file you say. What version is this for?

awesome article….. helped me lots…. thank u very much