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iTextSharp html to pdf
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data.Entity.Core.Mapping;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml;
using Voodoo;
namespace Helpers
{
public class PdfGenerator
{
public static Byte[] GeneratePdfFromFragment(string htmlFragment)
{
var html = string.Format(@"
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'>
<head>
<style type='text/css'>
table,td {{border: 1px solid black;}}
div {{ white-space: nowrap; padding: 2px;}}
table{{ border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; empty-cells: show;}}
body table {{font-size: 50%;}}
th {{width:500px; height: 28px;}}
td {{width:300px; height: 28px;}}
</style>
</head><body>{0}</body></html>", htmlFragment);
return generate(html);
}
public static Byte[] GeneratePdfFromPage(string htmlPage)
{
return generate(htmlPage);
}
private static Byte[] generate (string html)
{
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
var pdfDocument = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
var pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDocument, memoryStream);
pdfDocument.Open();
using (var fw = new StringReader(html))
{
XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(pdfWriter, pdfDocument, fw);
pdfDocument.Close();
fw.Close();
}
return memoryStream.ToArray();
}
}
}
}
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