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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Hosting;
namespace PdfGenerator
{
public class PdfGenerator
{
/// <summary>
/// Convert Html page at a given URL to a PDF file using open-source tool wkhtml2pdf
/// wkhtml2pdf can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
/// Useful code used in the creation of this I love the good folk of StackOverflow!: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1331926/calling-wkhtmltopdf-to-generate-pdf-from-html/1698839
/// An online manual can be found here: http://madalgo.au.dk/~jakobt/wkhtmltoxdoc/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-doc.html
///
/// Ensure that the output folder specified is writeable by the ASP.NET process of IIS running on your server
///
/// This code requires that the Windows installer is installed on the relevant server / client. This can either be found at:
/// http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list - download wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-installer.exe
/// </summary>
/// <param name="pdfOutputLocation"></param>
/// <param name="outputFilenamePrefix"></param>
/// <param name="urls"></param>
/// <param name="options"></param>
/// <param name="pdfHtmlToPdfExePath"></param>
/// <returns>the URL of the generated PDF</returns>
public static string HtmlToPdf(string pdfOutputLocation, string outputFilenamePrefix, string[] urls,
string[] options = null,
string pdfHtmlToPdfExePath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\wkhtmltopdf\\wkhtmltopdf.exe")
{
string urlsSeparatedBySpaces = string.Empty;
try
{
//Determine inputs
if ((urls == null) || (urls.Length == 0))
throw new Exception("No input URLs provided for HtmlToPdf");
else
urlsSeparatedBySpaces = String.Join(" ", urls); //Concatenate URLs
string outputFolder = pdfOutputLocation;
string outputFilename = outputFilenamePrefix + "_" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss-fff") + ".PDF"; // assemble destination PDF file name
var p = new System.Diagnostics.Process()
{
StartInfo =
{
FileName = pdfHtmlToPdfExePath,
Arguments = ((options == null) ? "" : String.Join(" ", options)) + " " + urlsSeparatedBySpaces + " " + outputFilename,
UseShellExecute = false, // needs to be false in order to redirect output
RedirectStandardOutput = true,
RedirectStandardError = true,
RedirectStandardInput = true, // redirect all 3, as it should be all 3 or none
WorkingDirectory = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(outputFolder)
}
};
p.Start();
// read the output here...
var output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
var errorOutput = p.StandardError.ReadToEnd();
// ...then wait n milliseconds for exit (as after exit, it can't read the output)
p.WaitForExit(60000);
// read the exit code, close process
int returnCode = p.ExitCode;
p.Close();
// if 0 or 2, it worked so return path of pdf
if ((returnCode == 0) || (returnCode == 2))
return outputFolder + outputFilename;
else
throw new Exception(errorOutput);
}
catch (Exception exc)
{
throw new Exception("Problem generating PDF from HTML, URLs: " + urlsSeparatedBySpaces + ", outputFilename: " + outputFilenamePrefix, exc);
}
}
}
}
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