I am using ASP for this and I had to generate reports in PDF format and send the file back to clients so they can download it.
I made the reports using MigraDoc library and they were great but after I tried it with Arabic text I found the texts were in LTR and the characters were disjointed so I made this code to test things out
...............
MigraDoc.DocumentObjectModel.Document reportDoc = new MigraDoc.DocumentObjectModel.Document();
reportDoc.Info.Title = "test";
sec = reportDoc.AddSection();
string fileName = "test.pdf";
addformattedText(sec, "العبارة", true);
PdfDocumentRenderer renderer = new PdfDocumentRenderer(true);
renderer.Document = reportDoc;
renderer.RenderDocument();
MemoryStream pdfStream = new MemoryStream();
renderer.PdfDocument.Save(pdfStream);
byte[] bytes = pdfStream.ToArray();
...............
private void addformattedText(Section sec,string text, bool shouldBeBold = false)
{
var tf = sec.AddTextFrame();
var p = tf.AddParagraph(text);
p.Format.Font.Name = "Tahoma";
if (shouldBeBold) p.Format.Font.Bold = true;
}
I get the output like this
I have tried to encode the text and make it a unicode string using this code
private string getEscapedString(string text)
{
if (true || HasArabicCharacters(text))
{
string uString = "";
byte[] utfBytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(text);
foreach (var u in utfBytes)
{
if (u != 0)
{
uString += String.Format(#"\u{0:x4}", u);
}
}
return uString;
}
else
return text;
}
and get the returned string into a paragraph and save the PDF documents with unicode parameter set to true
But it is all the same.
I can not figure out how to get it done.
The reports were done using MigraDoc 1.50.5147 library.
The problem is Arabic language font have 4 different shap in begging,last,connected and alone, where Pdfsharp and MigraDoc can not recognize which shap to print farther more you need to reverse the character order to solve this you can use AraibcPdfUnicodeGlyphsResharper to help do such work as following:
using PdfSharp.Drawing;
using PdfSharp.Pdf;
using AraibcPdfUnicodeGlyphsResharper;
namespace MigraDocArabic
{
internal class PrintArabicUsingPdfSharp
{
public PrintArabicUsingPdfSharp(string path)
{
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
document.Info.Title = "Created with PDFsharp";
System.Text.Encoding.RegisterProvider(System.Text.CodePagesEncodingProvider.Instance);
// Create an empty page
PdfPage page = document.AddPage();
// Get an XGraphics object for drawing
XGraphics gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
// Create a font
XFont font = new XFont("Arial", 20, XFontStyle.BoldItalic);
var xArabicString = "كتابة اللغة العربية شيئ جميل".ArabicWithFontGlyphsToPfd();
// Draw the text
gfx.DrawString("Hello, World!", font, XBrushes.Black, new XRect(0, 0, page.Width, page.Height), XStringFormats.Center);
gfx.DrawString(xArabicString, font, XBrushes.Black, new XRect(50, 50, page.Width, page.Height), XStringFormats.Center);
// Save the document...
document.Save(path);
}
}
}
Do not Forget the Extension method
By the way this is work with iText7 too
see the image for result
Result
PDFsharp does not support RTL languages yet:
http://www.pdfsharp.net/wiki/PDFsharpFAQ.ashx#Does_PDFsharp_support_for_Arabic_Hebrew_CJK_Chinese_Japanese_Korean_6
You can work around this limitation by reversing the string.
PDFsharp does not support font ligatures yet. You are probably able to work around this limitation by replacing letters with the correct glyph (start, middle, end) depending on the position.
Related
So I am trying to convert a standard A4 PDF file into a .txt file using Spire.Pdf NuGet Package, and whenever I do it there is a lot of whitespace at the start of each line where the margins of the document go I presume. I managed to solve the issue using the TrimStart() method but I want to be able to do remove the margins using Spire.Pdf itself.
I have played around with setting a PdfTextExtractOptions ExtractArea RectangleF but for some reason it cuts the bottom of the text and I lose rows.
My code is:
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.LoadFromFile(#"path");
var content = new List<string>();
RectangleF rectangle = new RectangleF(45, 0, 0, 0);
PdfTextExtractOptions options = new() { IsExtractAllText = true, IsShowHiddenText = true, ExtractArea = rectangle };
foreach (PdfPageBase page in doc.Pages)
{
PdfTextExtractor textExtractor = new(page);
//extract text from a specific rectangular area here - defualt A4 margin sizes?
string extractedText = textExtractor.ExtractText(options);
content.Add(extractedText);
}
FileStream fs = new FileStream(#"outputFile.txt", FileMode.Create);
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(fs);
string txtBefore = (string.Join("\n", content));
sw.Write(txtBefore);
Thanks in advance
You can try the code below to extract text from PDF, it will not generate extra white spaces at the start of each line in the result .txt file. I already tested it.
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.LoadFromFile(#"test.pdf");
PdfTextExtractOptions options = new PdfTextExtractOptions();
options.IsSimpleExtraction = true;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (PdfPageBase page in doc.Pages)
{
PdfTextExtractor extractor = new PdfTextExtractor(page);
sb.AppendLine(extractor.ExtractText(options));
}
File.WriteAllText("Extract.txt", sb.ToString());
I am trying to build a customized PDF export form with HTML and bootstrap to use in any c# project. I want to use bootstrap designs to make my custom PDF designs. There is no problem with my own custom css file. It is working fine. But when I add the css file of bootstrap, it makes my document zoom out and be much smaller too. I cannot figure out how to fix this. I just want to create an A4 paper size form in PDF and print it.
Here is what I get when I add the bootstrap css file:
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml.html;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml.parser;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml.pipeline.css;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml.pipeline.end;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml.pipeline.html;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace pdf
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
byte[] result;
Document documment = new Document(PageSize.A4);
string bootstrapCssFilePath = #"C:/Users/sea_h/Desktop/cop/fulhtml/pdf/bootstrap.min.css";
string customCssFilePath = #"C:/Users/sea_h/Desktop/cop/fulhtml/pdf/custom.css";
string htmlText = #"
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div class='container'>
<col-sm4>
<h1>Deneme H1</h1>
</col-sm4>
<col-sm4>
<h2>deneme h2</h2>
</col-sm4>
<col-sm4>
<h7>deneme h7</h7>
</col-sm4>
</div>
</body>
</html>";
using (var ms=new MemoryStream())
{
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(documment, ms);
writer.CloseStream = false;
documment.Open();
HtmlPipelineContext htmlContext = new HtmlPipelineContext(null);
htmlContext.SetTagFactory(Tags.GetHtmlTagProcessorFactory());
ICSSResolver cssResolver = XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().GetDefaultCssResolver(false);
cssResolver.AddCssFile(bootstrapCssFilePath, true);
cssResolver.AddCssFile(customCssFilePath, true);
IPipeline pipeLine = new CssResolverPipeline(cssResolver, new HtmlPipeline(htmlContext, new PdfWriterPipeline(documment, writer)));
XMLWorker worker = new XMLWorker(pipeLine, true);
XMLParser xmlParser = new XMLParser(worker);
xmlParser.Parse(new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(htmlText)));
documment.Close();
result = ms.GetBuffer();
string dest = #"C:\Users\sea_h\Desktop\deneme016.pdf";
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(dest, result);
}
}
}
}
My custom css is:
h1{
background-color:red;
}
There is no error message.
First you need a button or something to trigger the print job, then toss on some code like this, essentially this is just going pop a print menu and go ahead with print job when user hits submit (returns 1)
In the printImage method you are going to find the declarations for fonts etc you intend to use. I'm sure there are other ways, but I use rectangles to place my draw strings where I need them. tempPoint.X and tempPoint.Y are followed by rect.location = tempPoint, this allows you to move the rectangle around as needed and keep tracking of coordinates as you go. e.graphics.drawstring() is what actually writes the text, for more specifics I would go ahead and look up some further information. From this you can just keep replicating the tempPoint movement, rect location assignment, and drawstring to customize where things are placed in your print form. As far as turning it into a pdf, windows comes with tools that are in the print menu to automate that part of it all.
private void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
pd.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(PrintImage);
PrintDialog printdlg = new PrintDialog();
/*preview the assigned document or you can create a different previewButton for it
printPrvDlg.Document = pd;
printPrvDlg.ShowDialog(); // this shows the preview and then show the Printer Dlg below
*/
printdlg.Document = pd;
if (printdlg.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
pd.Print();
}
}
void PrintImage(object o, PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
const int ORIGIN = 150;
var near = new StringFormat() { Alignment = StringAlignment.Near };
var centered = new StringFormat() { Alignment = StringAlignment.Center };
var far = new StringFormat() { Alignment = StringAlignment.Far };
Point tempPoint = new Point();
var rect = new RectangleF(0, 0, 0, 0);
var headingRect = new RectangleF(0, 0, 0, 0);
// Create font and brush.
Font titleDrawFont = new Font("Times New Roman", 16, FontStyle.Bold);
Font subtitleDrawFont = new Font("Times New Roman", 12);
Font drawFont = new Font("Times New Roman", 8);
SolidBrush drawBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
Pen blackPen = new Pen(Color.Black, 1);
// Draw string to screen.
//***************************************************************
Image logo = Image.FromFile(imageLoc);
e.Graphics.DrawImage(logo, (e.PageBounds.Width - logo.Width) / 2,
10, logo.Width, logo.Height); //Created Centered Image in original size
rect.Width = 150;
rect.Height = 20;
headingRect.Width = e.PageBounds.Width;
headingRect.Height = 40; //Set to 40 to avoid cut off with larger title text
tempPoint.X = 0;
tempPoint.Y = 110;
headingRect.Location = tempPoint;
e.Graphics.DrawString(lblTitle.Text, titleDrawFont, drawBrush, headingRect, centered);
So i just figure out why this is happenning.
Bootstrap css file using rem units for sizing.
But itextsharp using 300ppi resulotion whic means A4 paper have 2480 px X 3508 px resulotion in 300ppi.And bootstrap sizing is so small for this resulotion.
So i can modify bootstrap css file with new higher sizes as manually to fix this problem.
Or if it is possible, i can try the set itextsharp paper ppi for lower as like 70ppi.
I think there is no clear solution for this problem.
I am using Spire PDF to convert my HTML template to PDF file. Here is the sample code for the same:
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Create a pdf document.
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
PdfPageSettings setting = new PdfPageSettings();
setting.Size = new SizeF(1000,1000);
setting.Margins = new Spire.Pdf.Graphics.PdfMargins(20);
PdfHtmlLayoutFormat htmlLayoutFormat = new PdfHtmlLayoutFormat();
htmlLayoutFormat.IsWaiting = true;
String url = "https://www.wikipedia.org/";
Thread thread = new Thread(() =>
{ doc.LoadFromHTML(url, false, false, false, setting,htmlLayoutFormat); });
thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
thread.Start();
thread.Join();
//Save pdf file.
doc.SaveToFile("output-wiki.pdf");
doc.Close();
//Launching the Pdf file.
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output-wiki.pdf");
}
}
This is working as expected but now I want to add Header and Footer to all the pages. Though adding header and footer is possible using SprirePdf but my requirement is to add HTML template to the Header which I am not able to achieve. Is there any way to render html template to Header and footer?
Spire.PDF provides a class PdfHTMLTextElement supporting to render simple HTML tags including Font, B, I, U, Sub, Sup and BR on a PDF page. You can append HTML to header space in an existing PDF document using the following code snippet. As far as I know, there is no way to render complicated HTML only as a part of the document by using Spire.PDF.
//load an existing pdf document
PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
doc.LoadFromFile(#"C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\sample.pdf");
//loop through the pages
for (int i = 0; i < doc.Pages.Count; i++)
{
//get the specfic page
PdfPageBase page = doc.Pages[i];
//define HTML string
string htmlText = "<b>XXX lnc.</b><br/><i>Tel:889 974 544</i><br/><font color='#FF4500'>Website:www.xxx.com</font>";
//render HTML text
PdfFont font = new PdfFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 12);
PdfBrush brush = PdfBrushes.Black;
PdfHTMLTextElement richTextElement = new PdfHTMLTextElement(htmlText, font, brush);
richTextElement.TextAlign = TextAlign.Left;
//draw html string at the top white space
richTextElement.Draw(page.Canvas, new RectangleF(70, 20, page.GetClientSize().Width - 140, page.GetClientSize().Height - 20));
}
//save to file
doc.SaveToFile("output.pdf");
I want to create a PDF file with Arabic text content in C#. I'm using iTextSharp to create this. I followed the instruction in http://geekswithblogs.net/JaydPage/archive/2011/11/02/using-itextsharp-to-correctly-display-hebrew--arabic-text-right.aspx. I want to insert the following Arabic sentence in pdf.
تم إبرام هذا العقد في هذا اليوم [●] م الموافق [●] من قبل وبين .
The [●] need to be replaced by dynamic English words. I tried to implement this by using ARIALUNI.TTF [This tutorial link suggested it]. The code is given below.
public void WriteDocument()
{
//Declare a itextSharp document
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
//Create our file stream and bind the writer to the document and the stream
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(#"D:\Test.Pdf", FileMode.Create));
//Open the document for writing
document.Open();
//Add a new page
document.NewPage();
//Reference a Unicode font to be sure that the symbols are present.
BaseFont bfArialUniCode = BaseFont.CreateFont(#"D:\ARIALUNI.TTF", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
//Create a font from the base font
Font font = new Font(bfArialUniCode, 12);
//Use a table so that we can set the text direction
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
//Ensure that wrapping is on, otherwise Right to Left text will not display
table.DefaultCell.NoWrap = false;
//Create a regex expression to detect hebrew or arabic code points
const string regex_match_arabic_hebrew = #"[\u0600-\u06FF,\u0590-\u05FF]+";
if (Regex.IsMatch("م الموافق", regex_match_arabic_hebrew, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase))
{
table.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL;
}
//Create a cell and add text to it
PdfPCell text = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(" : "+"من قبل وبين" + " 2007 " + "م الموافق" + " dsdsdsdsds " + "تم إبرام هذا العقد في هذا اليوم ", font));
//Ensure that wrapping is on, otherwise Right to Left text will not display
text.NoWrap = false;
//Add the cell to the table
table.AddCell(text);
//Add the table to the document
document.Add(table);
//Close the document
document.Close();
//Launch the document if you have a file association set for PDF's
Process AcrobatReader = new Process();
AcrobatReader.StartInfo.FileName = #"D:\Test.Pdf";
AcrobatReader.Start();
}
While calling this function, I got a PDF with some Unicode as given below.
اذه يف دقعلا اذه ماربإ مت dsdsdsdsds قفاوملا م 2007 نيبو لبق نم
مويلا
It is not matching with our hard coded Arabic sentence. Is this a issue of font? Please help me or suggest me any other method to implement the same.
#csharpcoder has the right idea, but his execution is off. He doesn't add the cell to a table, and the table doesn't end up in the document.
void Go()
{
Document doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
string yourPath = "foo/bar/baz.pdf";
using (FileStream os = new FileStream(yourPath, FileMode.Create))
{
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, os); // you don't need the return value
doc.Open();
string fontLoc = #"c:\windows\fonts\arialuni.ttf"; // make sure to have the correct path to the font file
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(fontLoc, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font f = new Font(bf, 12);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1); // a table with 1 cell
Phrase text = new Phrase("العقد", f);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(text);
table.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL; // can also be set on the cell
table.AddCell(cell);
doc.Add(table);
doc.Close();
}
}
You will probably want to get rid of the cell borders etc, but that information can be found elsewhere on SO or the iText website. iText should be able to handle text that contains both RTL and LTR characters.
EDIT
I think the source problem is actually with how the Arabic text is rendered in Visual Studio and in Firefox (my browser), or alternatively with how the Strings are concatenated. I'm not very familiar with Arabic text editors, but the text seems to come out correctly if we do this:
FYI I had to take a screenshot, because copy-pasting into the browser from VS (and vice versa) messes up the order of the parts of the text.
Right-to-left writing and Arabic ligatures are only supported in ColumnText and PdfPTable!
Try out the below code :
Document Doc = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
//Create our file stream
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "Test.pdf"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Read))
{
//Bind PDF writer to document and stream
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(Doc, fs);
//Open document for writing
Doc.Open();
//Add a page
Doc.NewPage();
//Full path to the Unicode Arial file
string ARIALUNI_TFF = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts), "arabtype.TTF");
//Create a base font object making sure to specify IDENTITY-H
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(ARIALUNI_TFF, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
Font f = new Font(bf, 12);
//Write some text, the last character is 0x0278 - LATIN SMALL LETTER PHI
Doc.Add(new Phrase("This is a ميسو ɸ", f));
//add Arabic text, for instance in a table
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.AddElement(new Phrase("Hello\u0682", f));
cell.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL;
//Close the PDF
Doc.Close();
}
I hope these notes can help you from other answers:
Use a safe code to achieve your font:
var tahomaFontFile = Path.Combine(
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts),
"Tahoma.ttf");
Use BaseFont.IDENTITY_H and BaseFont.EMBEDDED properties.
var tahomaBaseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont(tahomaFontFile,
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H,
BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
var tahomaFont = new Font(tahomaBaseFont, 8, Font.NORMAL);
Use PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL, for both your cell and your table:
var table = new PdfPTable(1)
{
RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL
};
var phrase = new Phrase("تم إبرام هذا العقد في هذا اليوم [●] م الموافق [●] من قبل وبين .",
tahomaFont);
var cell = new PdfPCell(phrase)
{
RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL,
Border = 0,
};
i believe your problem in string structure part, try to use the below code it works fine with me, Good Luck.`
public static void GeneratePDF()
{
//Declare a itextSharp document
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
Random ran = new Random();
string PDFFileName = string.Format(#"C:\Test{0}.Pdf", ran);
//Create our file stream and bind the writer to the document and the stream
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(PDFFileName, FileMode.Create));
//Open the document for writing
document.Open();
//Add a new page
document.NewPage();
var ArialFontFile = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts), "ARIALUNI.ttf");
//Reference a Unicode font to be sure that the symbols are present.
BaseFont bfArialUniCode = BaseFont.CreateFont(ArialFontFile, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
//Create a font from the base font
Font font = new Font(bfArialUniCode, 12);
//Use a table so that we can set the text direction
var table = new PdfPTable(1)
{
RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL,
};
//Ensure that wrapping is on, otherwise Right to Left text will not display
table.DefaultCell.NoWrap = false;
ContentObject CO = new ContentObject();
CO.Name = "Ahmed Gomaa";
CO.StartDate = DateTime.Now.AddMonths(-5);
CO.EndDate = DateTime.Now.AddMonths(43);
string content = string.Format(" تم إبرام هذا العقد في هذا اليوم من قبل {0} في تاريخ بين {1} و {2}", CO.Name, CO.StartDate, CO.EndDate);
var phrase = new Phrase(content, font);
//var phrase = new Phrase("الحمد لله رب العالمين", font);
//Create a cell and add text to it
PdfPCell text = new PdfPCell(phrase)
{
RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL,
Border = 0
};
//Ensure that wrapping is on, otherwise Right to Left text will not display
text.NoWrap = false;
//Add the cell to the table
table.AddCell(text);
//Add the table to the document
document.Add(table);
//Close the document
document.Close();
//Launch the document if you have a file association set for PDF's
Process AcrobatReader = new Process();
AcrobatReader.StartInfo.FileName = PDFFileName;
AcrobatReader.Start();
}
}
public class ContentObject
{
public string Name { set; get; }
public DateTime StartDate { set; get; }
public DateTime EndDate { set; get; }
}
`
I want to decorate various paragraphs in a PDF file by bolding some text, using different fonts, and colors. I thought I found the code for how to do that (below), but it's not working - all the text is the same font, color (black), and size. Why are my virtual sweat-inducing efforts to prettyify the PDF file so far in vain? Here is my code:
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
using (var doc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 25, 25))
{
using (var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms))
{
doc.Open();
// Mimic the appearance of Duckbill_Platypus.pdf
var docTitle = new Paragraph("Duckbilled Platypi - they're not what's for dinner");
var titleFont = FontFactory.GetFont("Courier", 18, BaseColor.BLACK);
docTitle.Font = titleFont;
doc.Add(docTitle);
var subTitle = new Paragraph("Baby, infant, toddler, and perhaps 'Terrible 2s' Platypi are called Platypups");
var subtitleFont = FontFactory.GetFont("Times Roman", 13, BaseColor.BLACK);
subTitle.Font = subtitleFont;
doc.Add(subTitle);
var importantNotice = new Paragraph("Teenage platypi are sometimes called Platydude[tte]s");
var importantNoticeFont = FontFactory.GetFont("Courier", 13, BaseColor.RED);
importantNotice.Font = importantNoticeFont;
doc.Add(importantNotice);
ListColumns lc;
for (int i = 0; i < listOfListItems.Count; i++)
{
lc = listOfListItems[i];
sb.AppendLine(String.Format(#"<p>Request date is {0}; Payee Name is {1}; Remit Address or Mail Stop is {2}; Last 4 of SSN or ITIN is {3}; 204 Submitted or on file is {4}; Requester Name is {5}; Dept or Div Name is {6}; Phone is {7}; Email is {8}</p>",
lc.li_requestDate, lc.li_payeeName, lc.li_remitAddressOrMailStop, lc.li_last4SSNDigitsOrITIN, lc.li_204SubmittedOrOnFile, lc.li_requesterName, lc.li_deptDivName, lc.li_phone, lc.li_email));
}
String htmlToRenderAsPDF = sb.ToString();
//XMLWorker also reads from a TextReader and not directly from a string
using (var srHtml = new StringReader(htmlToRenderAsPDF))
{
XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, doc, srHtml);
}
doc.Close();
}
}
try
{
var bytes = ms.ToArray();
var testFile = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "iTextSharpTest.pdf");
File.WriteAllBytes(testFile, bytes);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
String exMsg = ex.Message;
; // what is "ex" here?
}
I'm setting two sizes of font (18 and 13), two colors (black and red), two fonts ("Courier" and "Times Roman") yet all my hours of travail here for PDF fancification seem yet in vain (apologies to Vachel Lindsay and Abraham Lincoln).
You should use the font when creating the Paragraph:
Font f = new Font(FontFamily.COURIER);
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("text", f);
document.add(p);
Or you should wait to add content until you've set the font:
Paragraph p = new Paragraph();
Font f = new Font(FontFamily.COURIER);
p.setFont(f);
p.addText("text");
document.add(p);
In your code, you have something like this:
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("text");
Font f = new Font(FontFamily.COURIER);
p.setFont(f);
document.add(p);
When setting the font using setFont(), you set the font for the text that will be added to the paragraph, not to the text that is already stored in the paragraph.
For instance:
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("font 1 ");
p.setFont(new Font(FontFamily.COURIER);
p.add("font 2");
document.add(p);
This will add the text font 1 in the default font and font 2 in Courier.