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ITextSharp pdf resize and data alignment

I am using ITextSharp to convert HTML to PDF but i want the PDF to be generated of size 5cm width. I used the following code
var pgSize = new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(2.05f, 2.05f);
Document doc = new Document(pgSize);
but it is just resizing the pdf and my data disappeared in the pdf or get hide.
How can i align the data in the center in PDF or resize the pdf? Here is my code
public void ConvertHTMLToPDF(string HTMLCode)
{
try
{
System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
StringReader reader = new StringReader(HTMLCode);
var pgSize = new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(2.05f, 2.05f);
Document doc = new Document(pgSize);
HTMLWorker parser = new HTMLWorker(doc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream(Server.MapPath("~") + "/App_Data/HTMLToPDF.pdf",
FileMode.Create));
doc.Open();
foreach (IElement element in HTMLWorker.ParseToList(
new StringReader(HTMLCode), null))
{
doc.Add(element);
}
doc.Close();
Response.End();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
}
}

You are creating a PDF that measures 0.0723 cm by 0.0723 cm. That is much too small to add any content. If you want to create a PDF of 5 cm by 5 cm, you need to create your document like this:
var pgSize = new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(141.732f, 141.732f);
Document doc = new Document(pgSize);
As for the alignment, that should be defined in the HTML, but you are using an old version of iText and you are using the deprecated HTMLWorker.
You should upgrade to iText 7 and pdfHTML as described here: Converting HTML to PDF using iText
Also: the size of the page can be defined in the #page-rule of the CSS. See Huge white space after header in PDF using Flying Saucer
Why would you make it difficult for yourself by using an old iText version, when the new version allows you to do this:
#page {
size: 5cm 5cm;
}

Converting aspx page to PDF with css using iTextSharp in asp.net c#? [duplicate]

I want to convert the below HTML to PDF using iTextSharp but don't know where to start:
<style>
.headline{font-size:200%}
</style>
<p>
This <em>is </em>
<span class="headline" style="text-decoration: underline;">some</span>
<strong>sample<em> text</em></strong>
<span style="color: red;">!!!</span>
</p>

First, HTML and PDF are not related although they were created around the same time. HTML is intended to convey higher level information such as paragraphs and tables. Although there are methods to control it, it is ultimately up to the browser to draw these higher level concepts. PDF is intended to convey documents and the documents must "look" the same wherever they are rendered.
In an HTML document you might have a paragraph that's 100% wide and depending on the width of your monitor it might take 2 lines or 10 lines and when you print it it might be 7 lines and when you look at it on your phone it might take 20 lines. A PDF file, however, must be independent of the rendering device, so regardless of your screen size it must always render exactly the same.
Because of the musts above, PDF doesn't support abstract things like "tables" or "paragraphs". There are three basic things that PDF supports: text, lines/shapes and images. (There are other things like annotations and movies but I'm trying to keep it simple here.) In a PDF you don't say "here's a paragraph, browser do your thing!". Instead you say, "draw this text at this exact X,Y location using this exact font and don't worry, I've previously calculated the width of the text so I know it will all fit on this line". You also don't say "here's a table" but instead you say "draw this text at this exact location and then draw a rectangle at this other exact location that I've previously calculated so I know it will appear to be around the text".
Second, iText and iTextSharp parse HTML and CSS. That's it. ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, Struts, Spring, etc, are all HTML frameworks but iText/iTextSharp is 100% unaware of them. Same with DataGridViews, Repeaters, Templates, Views, etc. which are all framework-specific abstractions. It is your responsibility to get the HTML from your choice of framework, iText won't help you. If you get an exception saying The document has no pages or you think that "iText isn't parsing my HTML" it is almost definite that you don't actually have HTML, you only think you do.
Third, the built-in class that's been around for years is the HTMLWorker however this has been replaced with XMLWorker (Java / .Net). Zero work is being done on HTMLWorker which doesn't support CSS files and has only limited support for the most basic CSS properties and actually breaks on certain tags. If you do not see the HTML attribute or CSS property and value in this file then it probably isn't supported by HTMLWorker. XMLWorker can be more complicated sometimes but those complications also make it more extensible.
Below is C# code that shows how to parse HTML tags into iText abstractions that get automatically added to the document that you are working on. C# and Java are very similar so it should be relatively easy to convert this. Example #1 uses the built-in HTMLWorker to parse the HTML string. Since only inline styles are supported the class="headline" gets ignored but everything else should actually work. Example #2 is the same as the first except it uses XMLWorker instead. Example #3 also parses the simple CSS example.
//Create a byte array that will eventually hold our final PDF
Byte[] bytes;
//Boilerplate iTextSharp setup here
//Create a stream that we can write to, in this case a MemoryStream
using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) {
//Create an iTextSharp Document which is an abstraction of a PDF but **NOT** a PDF
using (var doc = new Document()) {
//Create a writer that's bound to our PDF abstraction and our stream
using (var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms)) {
//Open the document for writing
doc.Open();
//Our sample HTML and CSS
var example_html = #"<p>This <em>is </em><span class=""headline"" style=""text-decoration: underline;"">some</span> <strong>sample <em> text</em></strong><span style=""color: red;"">!!!</span></p>";
var example_css = #".headline{font-size:200%}";
/**************************************************
* Example #1 *
* *
* Use the built-in HTMLWorker to parse the HTML. *
* Only inline CSS is supported. *
* ************************************************/
//Create a new HTMLWorker bound to our document
using (var htmlWorker = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker(doc)) {
//HTMLWorker doesn't read a string directly but instead needs a TextReader (which StringReader subclasses)
using (var sr = new StringReader(example_html)) {
//Parse the HTML
htmlWorker.Parse(sr);
}
}
/**************************************************
* Example #2 *
* *
* Use the XMLWorker to parse the HTML. *
* Only inline CSS and absolutely linked *
* CSS is supported *
* ************************************************/
//XMLWorker also reads from a TextReader and not directly from a string
using (var srHtml = new StringReader(example_html)) {
//Parse the HTML
iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, doc, srHtml);
}
/**************************************************
* Example #3 *
* *
* Use the XMLWorker to parse HTML and CSS *
* ************************************************/
//In order to read CSS as a string we need to switch to a different constructor
//that takes Streams instead of TextReaders.
//Below we convert the strings into UTF8 byte array and wrap those in MemoryStreams
using (var msCss = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(example_css))) {
using (var msHtml = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(example_html))) {
//Parse the HTML
iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, doc, msHtml, msCss);
}
}
doc.Close();
}
}
//After all of the PDF "stuff" above is done and closed but **before** we
//close the MemoryStream, grab all of the active bytes from the stream
bytes = ms.ToArray();
}
//Now we just need to do something with those bytes.
//Here I'm writing them to disk but if you were in ASP.Net you might Response.BinaryWrite() them.
//You could also write the bytes to a database in a varbinary() column (but please don't) or you
//could pass them to another function for further PDF processing.
var testFile = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "test.pdf");
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(testFile, bytes);
2017's update
There are good news for HTML-to-PDF demands. As this answer showed, the W3C standard css-break-3 will solve the problem... It is a Candidate Recommendation with plan to turn into definitive Recommendation this year, after tests.
As not-so-standard there are solutions, with plugins for C#, as showed by print-css.rocks.

As of 2018, there is also iText7 (A next iteration of old iTextSharp library) and its HTML to PDF package available: itext7.pdfhtml
Usage is straightforward:
HtmlConverter.ConvertToPdf(
new FileInfo(#"Path\to\Html\File.html"),
new FileInfo(#"Path\to\Pdf\File.pdf")
);
Method has many more overloads.
Update: iText* family of products has dual licensing model: free for open source, paid for commercial use.

#Chris Haas has explained very well how to use itextSharp to convert HTML to PDF, very helpful
my add is:
By using HtmlTextWriter I put html tags inside HTML table + inline CSS i got my PDF as I wanted without using XMLWorker .
Edit: adding sample code:
ASPX page:
<asp:Panel runat="server" ID="PendingOrdersPanel">
<!-- to be shown on PDF-->
<table style="border-spacing: 0;border-collapse: collapse;width:100%;display:none;" >
<tr><td><img src="abc.com/webimages/logo1.png" style="display: none;" width="230" /></td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla.</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla.</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:11px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:center;"><i>blablabla</i> Pending orders report<br /></td></tr>
</table>
<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="PendingOrdersGV" RowStyle-Wrap="false" AllowPaging="true" PageSize="10" Width="100%" CssClass="Grid" AlternatingRowStyle-CssClass="alt" AutoGenerateColumns="false"
PagerStyle-CssClass="pgr" HeaderStyle-ForeColor="White" PagerStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" RowStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" DataKeyNames="Document#"
OnPageIndexChanging="PendingOrdersGV_PageIndexChanging" OnRowDataBound="PendingOrdersGV_RowDataBound" OnRowCommand="PendingOrdersGV_RowCommand">
<EmptyDataTemplate><div style="text-align:center;">no records found</div></EmptyDataTemplate>
<Columns>
<asp:ButtonField CommandName="PendingOrders_Details" DataTextField="Document#" HeaderText="Document #" SortExpression="Document#" ItemStyle-ForeColor="Black" ItemStyle-Font-Underline="true"/>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Order#" HeaderText="order #" SortExpression="Order#"/>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Order Date" HeaderText="Order Date" SortExpression="Order Date" DataFormatString="{0:d}"></asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Status" HeaderText="Status" SortExpression="Status"></asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Amount" HeaderText="Amount" SortExpression="Amount" DataFormatString="{0:C2}"></asp:BoundField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</asp:Panel>
C# code:
protected void PendingOrdersPDF_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (PendingOrdersGV.Rows.Count > 0)
{
//to allow paging=false & change style.
PendingOrdersGV.HeaderStyle.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
PendingOrdersGV.BorderColor = Color.Gray;
PendingOrdersGV.Font.Name = "Tahoma";
PendingOrdersGV.DataSource = clsBP.get_PendingOrders(lbl_BP_Id.Text);
PendingOrdersGV.AllowPaging = false;
PendingOrdersGV.Columns[0].Visible = false; //export won't work if there's a link in the gridview
PendingOrdersGV.DataBind();
//to PDF code --Sam
string attachment = "attachment; filename=report.pdf";
Response.ClearContent();
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", attachment);
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
StringWriter stw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter htextw = new HtmlTextWriter(stw);
htextw.AddStyleAttribute("font-size", "8pt");
htextw.AddStyleAttribute("color", "Grey");
PendingOrdersPanel.RenderControl(htextw); //Name of the Panel
Document document = new Document();
document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 5, 5, 15, 5);
FontFactory.GetFont("Tahoma", 50, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.BLUE);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, Response.OutputStream);
document.Open();
StringReader str = new StringReader(stw.ToString());
HTMLWorker htmlworker = new HTMLWorker(document);
htmlworker.Parse(str);
document.Close();
Response.Write(document);
}
}
of course include iTextSharp Refrences to cs file
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml;
Hope this helps!
Thank you

I use the following code to create PDF
protected void CreatePDF(Stream stream)
{
using (var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 40, 40, 40, 30))
{
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, stream);
writer.PageEvent = new ITextEvents();
document.Open();
// instantiate custom tag processor and add to `HtmlPipelineContext`.
var tagProcessorFactory = Tags.GetHtmlTagProcessorFactory();
tagProcessorFactory.AddProcessor(
new TableProcessor(),
new string[] { HTML.Tag.TABLE }
);
//Register Fonts.
XMLWorkerFontProvider fontProvider = new XMLWorkerFontProvider(XMLWorkerFontProvider.DONTLOOKFORFONTS);
fontProvider.Register(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Content/Fonts/GothamRounded-Medium.ttf"), "Gotham Rounded Medium");
CssAppliers cssAppliers = new CssAppliersImpl(fontProvider);
var htmlPipelineContext = new HtmlPipelineContext(cssAppliers);
htmlPipelineContext.SetTagFactory(tagProcessorFactory);
var pdfWriterPipeline = new PdfWriterPipeline(document, writer);
var htmlPipeline = new HtmlPipeline(htmlPipelineContext, pdfWriterPipeline);
// get an ICssResolver and add the custom CSS
var cssResolver = XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().GetDefaultCssResolver(true);
cssResolver.AddCss(CSSSource, "utf-8", true);
var cssResolverPipeline = new CssResolverPipeline(
cssResolver, htmlPipeline
);
var worker = new XMLWorker(cssResolverPipeline, true);
var parser = new XMLParser(worker);
using (var stringReader = new StringReader(HTMLSource))
{
parser.Parse(stringReader);
document.Close();
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application /pdf";
if (base.View)
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "inline;filename=\"" + OutputFileName + ".pdf\"");
else
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + OutputFileName + ".pdf\"");
HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
HttpContext.Current.Response.WriteFile(OutputPath);
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
}
}
}

Here's the link I used as a guide. Hope this helps!
Converting HTML to PDF using ITextSharp
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
string strHtml = string.Empty;
//HTML File path -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/
string htmlFileName = Server.MapPath("~") + "\\files\\" + "ConvertHTMLToPDF.htm";
//pdf file path. -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/
string pdfFileName = Request.PhysicalApplicationPath + "\\files\\" + "ConvertHTMLToPDF.pdf";
//reading html code from html file
FileStream fsHTMLDocument = new FileStream(htmlFileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader srHTMLDocument = new StreamReader(fsHTMLDocument);
strHtml = srHTMLDocument.ReadToEnd();
srHTMLDocument.Close();
strHtml = strHtml.Replace("\r\n", "");
strHtml = strHtml.Replace("\0", "");
CreatePDFFromHTMLFile(strHtml, pdfFileName);
Response.Write("pdf creation successfully with password -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Response.Write(ex.Message);
}
}
public void CreatePDFFromHTMLFile(string HtmlStream, string FileName)
{
try
{
object TargetFile = FileName;
string ModifiedFileName = string.Empty;
string FinalFileName = string.Empty;
/* To add a Password to PDF -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/ */
TestPDF.HtmlToPdfBuilder builder = new TestPDF.HtmlToPdfBuilder(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4);
TestPDF.HtmlPdfPage first = builder.AddPage();
first.AppendHtml(HtmlStream);
byte[] file = builder.RenderPdf();
File.WriteAllBytes(TargetFile.ToString(), file);
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader reader = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader(TargetFile.ToString());
ModifiedFileName = TargetFile.ToString();
ModifiedFileName = ModifiedFileName.Insert(ModifiedFileName.Length - 4, "1");
string password = "password";
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfEncryptor.Encrypt(reader, new FileStream(ModifiedFileName, FileMode.Append), iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.STRENGTH128BITS, password, "", iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.AllowPrinting);
//http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/
reader.Close();
if (File.Exists(TargetFile.ToString()))
File.Delete(TargetFile.ToString());
FinalFileName = ModifiedFileName.Remove(ModifiedFileName.Length - 5, 1);
File.Copy(ModifiedFileName, FinalFileName);
if (File.Exists(ModifiedFileName))
File.Delete(ModifiedFileName);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
You can download the sample file. Just place the html you want to convert in the files folder and run. It will automatically generate the pdf file and place it in the same folder. But in your case, you can specify your html path in the htmlFileName variable.

images and CSS using itextsharp [duplicate]

I want to convert the below HTML to PDF using iTextSharp but don't know where to start:
<style>
.headline{font-size:200%}
</style>
<p>
This <em>is </em>
<span class="headline" style="text-decoration: underline;">some</span>
<strong>sample<em> text</em></strong>
<span style="color: red;">!!!</span>
</p>

First, HTML and PDF are not related although they were created around the same time. HTML is intended to convey higher level information such as paragraphs and tables. Although there are methods to control it, it is ultimately up to the browser to draw these higher level concepts. PDF is intended to convey documents and the documents must "look" the same wherever they are rendered.
In an HTML document you might have a paragraph that's 100% wide and depending on the width of your monitor it might take 2 lines or 10 lines and when you print it it might be 7 lines and when you look at it on your phone it might take 20 lines. A PDF file, however, must be independent of the rendering device, so regardless of your screen size it must always render exactly the same.
Because of the musts above, PDF doesn't support abstract things like "tables" or "paragraphs". There are three basic things that PDF supports: text, lines/shapes and images. (There are other things like annotations and movies but I'm trying to keep it simple here.) In a PDF you don't say "here's a paragraph, browser do your thing!". Instead you say, "draw this text at this exact X,Y location using this exact font and don't worry, I've previously calculated the width of the text so I know it will all fit on this line". You also don't say "here's a table" but instead you say "draw this text at this exact location and then draw a rectangle at this other exact location that I've previously calculated so I know it will appear to be around the text".
Second, iText and iTextSharp parse HTML and CSS. That's it. ASP.Net, MVC, Razor, Struts, Spring, etc, are all HTML frameworks but iText/iTextSharp is 100% unaware of them. Same with DataGridViews, Repeaters, Templates, Views, etc. which are all framework-specific abstractions. It is your responsibility to get the HTML from your choice of framework, iText won't help you. If you get an exception saying The document has no pages or you think that "iText isn't parsing my HTML" it is almost definite that you don't actually have HTML, you only think you do.
Third, the built-in class that's been around for years is the HTMLWorker however this has been replaced with XMLWorker (Java / .Net). Zero work is being done on HTMLWorker which doesn't support CSS files and has only limited support for the most basic CSS properties and actually breaks on certain tags. If you do not see the HTML attribute or CSS property and value in this file then it probably isn't supported by HTMLWorker. XMLWorker can be more complicated sometimes but those complications also make it more extensible.
Below is C# code that shows how to parse HTML tags into iText abstractions that get automatically added to the document that you are working on. C# and Java are very similar so it should be relatively easy to convert this. Example #1 uses the built-in HTMLWorker to parse the HTML string. Since only inline styles are supported the class="headline" gets ignored but everything else should actually work. Example #2 is the same as the first except it uses XMLWorker instead. Example #3 also parses the simple CSS example.
//Create a byte array that will eventually hold our final PDF
Byte[] bytes;
//Boilerplate iTextSharp setup here
//Create a stream that we can write to, in this case a MemoryStream
using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) {
//Create an iTextSharp Document which is an abstraction of a PDF but **NOT** a PDF
using (var doc = new Document()) {
//Create a writer that's bound to our PDF abstraction and our stream
using (var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms)) {
//Open the document for writing
doc.Open();
//Our sample HTML and CSS
var example_html = #"<p>This <em>is </em><span class=""headline"" style=""text-decoration: underline;"">some</span> <strong>sample <em> text</em></strong><span style=""color: red;"">!!!</span></p>";
var example_css = #".headline{font-size:200%}";
/**************************************************
* Example #1 *
* *
* Use the built-in HTMLWorker to parse the HTML. *
* Only inline CSS is supported. *
* ************************************************/
//Create a new HTMLWorker bound to our document
using (var htmlWorker = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker(doc)) {
//HTMLWorker doesn't read a string directly but instead needs a TextReader (which StringReader subclasses)
using (var sr = new StringReader(example_html)) {
//Parse the HTML
htmlWorker.Parse(sr);
}
}
/**************************************************
* Example #2 *
* *
* Use the XMLWorker to parse the HTML. *
* Only inline CSS and absolutely linked *
* CSS is supported *
* ************************************************/
//XMLWorker also reads from a TextReader and not directly from a string
using (var srHtml = new StringReader(example_html)) {
//Parse the HTML
iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, doc, srHtml);
}
/**************************************************
* Example #3 *
* *
* Use the XMLWorker to parse HTML and CSS *
* ************************************************/
//In order to read CSS as a string we need to switch to a different constructor
//that takes Streams instead of TextReaders.
//Below we convert the strings into UTF8 byte array and wrap those in MemoryStreams
using (var msCss = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(example_css))) {
using (var msHtml = new MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(example_html))) {
//Parse the HTML
iTextSharp.tool.xml.XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().ParseXHtml(writer, doc, msHtml, msCss);
}
}
doc.Close();
}
}
//After all of the PDF "stuff" above is done and closed but **before** we
//close the MemoryStream, grab all of the active bytes from the stream
bytes = ms.ToArray();
}
//Now we just need to do something with those bytes.
//Here I'm writing them to disk but if you were in ASP.Net you might Response.BinaryWrite() them.
//You could also write the bytes to a database in a varbinary() column (but please don't) or you
//could pass them to another function for further PDF processing.
var testFile = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "test.pdf");
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes(testFile, bytes);
2017's update
There are good news for HTML-to-PDF demands. As this answer showed, the W3C standard css-break-3 will solve the problem... It is a Candidate Recommendation with plan to turn into definitive Recommendation this year, after tests.
As not-so-standard there are solutions, with plugins for C#, as showed by print-css.rocks.

As of 2018, there is also iText7 (A next iteration of old iTextSharp library) and its HTML to PDF package available: itext7.pdfhtml
Usage is straightforward:
HtmlConverter.ConvertToPdf(
new FileInfo(#"Path\to\Html\File.html"),
new FileInfo(#"Path\to\Pdf\File.pdf")
);
Method has many more overloads.
Update: iText* family of products has dual licensing model: free for open source, paid for commercial use.

#Chris Haas has explained very well how to use itextSharp to convert HTML to PDF, very helpful
my add is:
By using HtmlTextWriter I put html tags inside HTML table + inline CSS i got my PDF as I wanted without using XMLWorker .
Edit: adding sample code:
ASPX page:
<asp:Panel runat="server" ID="PendingOrdersPanel">
<!-- to be shown on PDF-->
<table style="border-spacing: 0;border-collapse: collapse;width:100%;display:none;" >
<tr><td><img src="abc.com/webimages/logo1.png" style="display: none;" width="230" /></td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla.</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla.</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:9px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:right;">blablabla</td></tr>
<tr style="line-height:10px;height:10px;"><td style="display:none;font-size:11px;color:#10466E;padding:0px;text-align:center;"><i>blablabla</i> Pending orders report<br /></td></tr>
</table>
<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="PendingOrdersGV" RowStyle-Wrap="false" AllowPaging="true" PageSize="10" Width="100%" CssClass="Grid" AlternatingRowStyle-CssClass="alt" AutoGenerateColumns="false"
PagerStyle-CssClass="pgr" HeaderStyle-ForeColor="White" PagerStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" RowStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" DataKeyNames="Document#"
OnPageIndexChanging="PendingOrdersGV_PageIndexChanging" OnRowDataBound="PendingOrdersGV_RowDataBound" OnRowCommand="PendingOrdersGV_RowCommand">
<EmptyDataTemplate><div style="text-align:center;">no records found</div></EmptyDataTemplate>
<Columns>
<asp:ButtonField CommandName="PendingOrders_Details" DataTextField="Document#" HeaderText="Document #" SortExpression="Document#" ItemStyle-ForeColor="Black" ItemStyle-Font-Underline="true"/>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Order#" HeaderText="order #" SortExpression="Order#"/>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Order Date" HeaderText="Order Date" SortExpression="Order Date" DataFormatString="{0:d}"></asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Status" HeaderText="Status" SortExpression="Status"></asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="Amount" HeaderText="Amount" SortExpression="Amount" DataFormatString="{0:C2}"></asp:BoundField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
</asp:Panel>
C# code:
protected void PendingOrdersPDF_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (PendingOrdersGV.Rows.Count > 0)
{
//to allow paging=false & change style.
PendingOrdersGV.HeaderStyle.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black;
PendingOrdersGV.BorderColor = Color.Gray;
PendingOrdersGV.Font.Name = "Tahoma";
PendingOrdersGV.DataSource = clsBP.get_PendingOrders(lbl_BP_Id.Text);
PendingOrdersGV.AllowPaging = false;
PendingOrdersGV.Columns[0].Visible = false; //export won't work if there's a link in the gridview
PendingOrdersGV.DataBind();
//to PDF code --Sam
string attachment = "attachment; filename=report.pdf";
Response.ClearContent();
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", attachment);
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
StringWriter stw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter htextw = new HtmlTextWriter(stw);
htextw.AddStyleAttribute("font-size", "8pt");
htextw.AddStyleAttribute("color", "Grey");
PendingOrdersPanel.RenderControl(htextw); //Name of the Panel
Document document = new Document();
document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 5, 5, 15, 5);
FontFactory.GetFont("Tahoma", 50, iTextSharp.text.BaseColor.BLUE);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, Response.OutputStream);
document.Open();
StringReader str = new StringReader(stw.ToString());
HTMLWorker htmlworker = new HTMLWorker(document);
htmlworker.Parse(str);
document.Close();
Response.Write(document);
}
}
of course include iTextSharp Refrences to cs file
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml;
Hope this helps!
Thank you

I use the following code to create PDF
protected void CreatePDF(Stream stream)
{
using (var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 40, 40, 40, 30))
{
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, stream);
writer.PageEvent = new ITextEvents();
document.Open();
// instantiate custom tag processor and add to `HtmlPipelineContext`.
var tagProcessorFactory = Tags.GetHtmlTagProcessorFactory();
tagProcessorFactory.AddProcessor(
new TableProcessor(),
new string[] { HTML.Tag.TABLE }
);
//Register Fonts.
XMLWorkerFontProvider fontProvider = new XMLWorkerFontProvider(XMLWorkerFontProvider.DONTLOOKFORFONTS);
fontProvider.Register(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Content/Fonts/GothamRounded-Medium.ttf"), "Gotham Rounded Medium");
CssAppliers cssAppliers = new CssAppliersImpl(fontProvider);
var htmlPipelineContext = new HtmlPipelineContext(cssAppliers);
htmlPipelineContext.SetTagFactory(tagProcessorFactory);
var pdfWriterPipeline = new PdfWriterPipeline(document, writer);
var htmlPipeline = new HtmlPipeline(htmlPipelineContext, pdfWriterPipeline);
// get an ICssResolver and add the custom CSS
var cssResolver = XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().GetDefaultCssResolver(true);
cssResolver.AddCss(CSSSource, "utf-8", true);
var cssResolverPipeline = new CssResolverPipeline(
cssResolver, htmlPipeline
);
var worker = new XMLWorker(cssResolverPipeline, true);
var parser = new XMLParser(worker);
using (var stringReader = new StringReader(HTMLSource))
{
parser.Parse(stringReader);
document.Close();
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application /pdf";
if (base.View)
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "inline;filename=\"" + OutputFileName + ".pdf\"");
else
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + OutputFileName + ".pdf\"");
HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
HttpContext.Current.Response.WriteFile(OutputPath);
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
}
}
}

Here's the link I used as a guide. Hope this helps!
Converting HTML to PDF using ITextSharp
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
string strHtml = string.Empty;
//HTML File path -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/
string htmlFileName = Server.MapPath("~") + "\\files\\" + "ConvertHTMLToPDF.htm";
//pdf file path. -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/
string pdfFileName = Request.PhysicalApplicationPath + "\\files\\" + "ConvertHTMLToPDF.pdf";
//reading html code from html file
FileStream fsHTMLDocument = new FileStream(htmlFileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
StreamReader srHTMLDocument = new StreamReader(fsHTMLDocument);
strHtml = srHTMLDocument.ReadToEnd();
srHTMLDocument.Close();
strHtml = strHtml.Replace("\r\n", "");
strHtml = strHtml.Replace("\0", "");
CreatePDFFromHTMLFile(strHtml, pdfFileName);
Response.Write("pdf creation successfully with password -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Response.Write(ex.Message);
}
}
public void CreatePDFFromHTMLFile(string HtmlStream, string FileName)
{
try
{
object TargetFile = FileName;
string ModifiedFileName = string.Empty;
string FinalFileName = string.Empty;
/* To add a Password to PDF -http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/ */
TestPDF.HtmlToPdfBuilder builder = new TestPDF.HtmlToPdfBuilder(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4);
TestPDF.HtmlPdfPage first = builder.AddPage();
first.AppendHtml(HtmlStream);
byte[] file = builder.RenderPdf();
File.WriteAllBytes(TargetFile.ToString(), file);
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader reader = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader(TargetFile.ToString());
ModifiedFileName = TargetFile.ToString();
ModifiedFileName = ModifiedFileName.Insert(ModifiedFileName.Length - 4, "1");
string password = "password";
iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfEncryptor.Encrypt(reader, new FileStream(ModifiedFileName, FileMode.Append), iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.STRENGTH128BITS, password, "", iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.AllowPrinting);
//http://aspnettutorialonline.blogspot.com/
reader.Close();
if (File.Exists(TargetFile.ToString()))
File.Delete(TargetFile.ToString());
FinalFileName = ModifiedFileName.Remove(ModifiedFileName.Length - 5, 1);
File.Copy(ModifiedFileName, FinalFileName);
if (File.Exists(ModifiedFileName))
File.Delete(ModifiedFileName);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
}
You can download the sample file. Just place the html you want to convert in the files folder and run. It will automatically generate the pdf file and place it in the same folder. But in your case, you can specify your html path in the htmlFileName variable.

Convert HTML to PDF using itextsharp

when converting html to pdf using itextsharp the style iam applying with css for the web page is not working in the converted pdf.
here is my css code :
<style type="text/css">
.cssformat
{
width:300px;
height:200px;
border:2px solid black;
background-color:white;
border-top-left-radius:60px 90px;
border-bottom-right-radius:60px 90px;
}
</style>
here is my html code :
<div id="divpdf" runat="server">
<table id="tid" runat="server">
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="this is new way of pdf" CssClass="cssformat"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
The following is what i have tried with c# :
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=TestPage.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 60f, 80f, -2f, 35f);
divpdf.RenderControl(hw);
StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
pdfDoc.Open();
hw1.Parse(new StringReader(sttt));
htmlparser.Parse(sr);
pdfDoc.Close();
Response.Write(pdfDoc);
Response.End();
sw.Close();
sr.Close();
hw.Close();

I struggled quite a bit to convert from HTML to PDF using iTextSharp and eventually gave up because I could not get a converted PDF that looked 100% the same as my HTML5/CSS3 page. So I'm giving you the alternative that eventually worked for me.
There is surprisingly very little options available when you are not prepared to pay for a commercial library. I had the same requirement from one of my clients(to convert from HTML to PDF) that did not want to pay for any third party tools, so I had to make a plan. This is what I did, not the best solution, but it got the job done
I downloaded the newest version of wkhtmltopdf. Unfortunately the wkhtmltopdf tool did not display some of my google graphs embedded in my HTML when converting to PDF. So I used the wkhtmltoimage tool also included to convert to a PNG, which woked as expected and displayed all the graphs.
I then downloaded the newest version of imagemagick and converted the PNG to PDF.
I automated this process using C#.
Unfortunately this is not the most elegant solution because you have to perform two conversions and do a bit of work to automate everything, but this is the best solution I could come up with that gave me the desired results and quality.
Of course there are lots of commercial software out there that will do a faster and better job.
Just a side note:
The web page that I had to convert was devloped in HTML5 and CSS3 using version 3 of bootstrap and it contained some google graphs and charts. Everything was converted without any problems.

Below is the example to convert HTML content containing the inline CSS Code.
public static class PdfCreator {
public static string ConvertHtmlToPdf(string htmlContent, string fileNameWithoutExtension, string filePath, string cssContent = "") {
if (!Directory.Exists(filePath)) {
Directory.CreateDirectory(filePath);
}
var fileNameWithPath = Path.Combine(filePath, fileNameWithoutExtension + ".pdf");
using(var stream = new FileStream(fileNameWithPath, FileMode.Create)) {
using(var document = new Document()) {
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, stream);
document.Open();
// instantiate custom tag processor and add to `HtmlPipelineContext`.
var tagProcessorFactory = Tags.GetHtmlTagProcessorFactory();
tagProcessorFactory.AddProcessor(new TableData(), new string[] {
HTML.Tag.TD
});
var htmlPipelineContext = new HtmlPipelineContext(null);
htmlPipelineContext.SetTagFactory(tagProcessorFactory);
var pdfWriterPipeline = new PdfWriterPipeline(document, writer);
var htmlPipeline = new HtmlPipeline(htmlPipelineContext, pdfWriterPipeline);
// get an ICssResolver and add the custom CSS
var cssResolver = XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance().GetDefaultCssResolver(true);
cssResolver.AddCss(cssContent, "utf-8", true);
var cssResolverPipeline = new CssResolverPipeline(
cssResolver, htmlPipeline);
var worker = new XMLWorker(cssResolverPipeline, true);
var parser = new XMLParser(worker);
using(var stringReader = new StringReader(htmlContent)) {
parser.Parse(stringReader);
}
}
}
return fileNameWithPath;
}
}

The output format of <asp:Lable> is "span", which is inline type of display. So change the display to block. Enjoy..

Make a pdf conforming PDF/A with only images using iTextSharp

I'm using iTextSharp to generate pdf-a documents from images. So far I've not been successful.
Edit: I'm using iTextSharp to generate the PDF
All I try is to make a pdf-a document (1a or 1b, whatever suits), with some images. This is the code I've come up so far, but I keep getting errors when I try to validate them with pdf-tools or validatepdfa.
This are the errors I get from pdf-tools (using PDF/A-1b validation):
Edit: MarkInfo and Color Space arn't yet working. The rest is okay
Validating file "0.pdf" for conformance level pdfa-1a
The key MarkInfo is required but missing.
A device-specific color space (DeviceRGB) without an appropriate output intent is used.
The document does not conform to the requested standard.
The document contains device-specific color spaces.
The document doesn't provide appropriate logical structure information.
Done.
Main flow
var output = new MemoryStream();
using (var iccProfileStream = new FileStream("ToPdfConverter/ColorProfiles/sRGB_v4_ICC_preference_displayclass.icc", FileMode.Open))
{
var document = new Document(new Rectangle(PageSize.A4.Width, PageSize.A4.Height), 0f, 0f, 0f, 0f);
var pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
pdfWriter.PDFXConformance = PdfWriter.PDFA1A;
document.Open();
var pdfDictionary = new PdfDictionary(PdfName.OUTPUTINTENT);
pdfDictionary.Put(PdfName.OUTPUTCONDITION, new PdfString("sRGB IEC61966-2.1"));
pdfDictionary.Put(PdfName.INFO, new PdfString("sRGB IEC61966-2.1"));
pdfDictionary.Put(PdfName.S, PdfName.GTS_PDFA1);
var iccProfile = ICC_Profile.GetInstance(iccProfileStream);
var pdfIccBased = new PdfICCBased(iccProfile);
pdfIccBased.Remove(PdfName.ALTERNATE);
pdfDictionary.Put(PdfName.DESTOUTPUTPROFILE, pdfWriter.AddToBody(pdfIccBased).IndirectReference);
pdfWriter.ExtraCatalog.Put(PdfName.OUTPUTINTENT, new PdfArray(pdfDictionary));
var image = PrepareImage(imageBytes);
document.Open();
document.Add(image);
pdfWriter.CreateXmpMetadata();
pdfWriter.CloseStream = false;
document.Close();
}
return output.GetBuffer();
This is prepareImage()
It's used to flatten the image to bmp, so I don't need to bother about alpha channels.
private Image PrepareImage(Stream stream)
{
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream));
var file = new MemoryStream();
bmp.Save(file, ImageFormat.Bmp);
var image = Image.GetInstance(file.GetBuffer());
if (image.Height > PageSize.A4.Height || image.Width > PageSize.A4.Width)
{
image.ScaleToFit(PageSize.A4.Width, PageSize.A4.Height);
}
return image;
}
Can anyone help me into a direction to fix the errors?
Specifically the device-specific color spaces
Edit: More explanation: What I'm trying to achieve is, converting scanned images to PDF/A for long-term data storage
Edit: added some files I'm using to test with
PDFs and Pictures.rar (3.9 MB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!n8pClYgL!NJOJqSO3EuVrqLVyh3c43yW-u_U35NqeB0svc6giaSQ

OK, I checked one of your files in callas pdfToolbox and it says: "Device color space used but no PDF/A output intent". Which I took as a sign that you do something wrong while writing an output intent to the document. I then converted that document to PDF/A-1b with the same tool and the difference is obvious.
Perhaps there are other errors you need to fix, but the first error here is that you put a key in the catalog dict for the PDF file that is named "OutputIntent". That's wrong: page 75 of the PDF Specification states that the key should be named "OutputIntents".
Like I said, perhaps there are other problems with your file beyond this, but the wrong name for the key causes PDF/A validators not to find the Output Intent you try to put in the file...

First of all, pdfx IS NOT pdfa.
Second, you're using wrong PdfWriter. It should be PdfAWriter.
I do not have solution for image problem unfortunatelly, but I have for 1 and 2.
Regards
using System;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
using iTextSharp.tool.xml;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
namespace Tests
{
/*
* References:
* UTF-8 encoding http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4902033/itextsharp-5-polish-character
* PDFA http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/661704/Create-pdf-A-using-itextsharp
* Images http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15896581/make-a-pdf-conforming-pdf-a-with-only-images-using-itextsharp
*/
[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1
{
/*
* IMPORTANT: Restrictions with html usage of tags and attributes
* 1. Dont use * <head> <title>Sklep</title> </head>, because title is rendered to the page
*/
// Test cases
static string contents = "<html><body style=\"font-family:arial unicode ms;font-size: 8px;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"> Davčna številka dolžnika: 74605968<br /> </p><table> <tr> <td><b>\u0160t. sklepa: 88711501</b></td> <td style=\"text-align: right;\">Davčna številka dolžnika: 74605968</td> </tr> </table> <br/><img src=\"http://img.rtvslo.si/_static/images/rtvslo_mmc_logo.png\" /></body></html>";
//static string contents = "<html><body style=\"font-family:arial unicode ms;font-size: 8px;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"> Davčna številka dolžnika: 74605968<br /> </p><table> <tr> <td><b>\u0160t. sklepa: 88711501</b></td> <td style=\"text-align: right;\">Davčna številka dolžnika: 74605968</td> </tr> </table> <br/></body></html>";
//[TestMethod]
public void CreatePdfHtml()
{
createPDF(contents, true);
}
private void createPDF(string html, bool isPdfa)
{
TextReader reader = new StringReader(html);
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 30, 30, 30, 30);
HTMLWorker worker = new HTMLWorker(document);
PdfWriter writer;
if (isPdfa)
{
//set conformity level
writer = PdfAWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(#"c:\temp\testA.pdf", FileMode.Create), PdfAConformanceLevel.PDF_A_1B);
//set pdf version
writer.SetPdfVersion(PdfAWriter.PDF_VERSION_1_4);
// Create XMP metadata. It's a PDF/A requirement.
writer.CreateXmpMetadata();
}
else
{
writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(#"c:\temp\test.pdf", FileMode.Create));
}
document.Open();
if (isPdfa) // document should be opend, or it will fail
{
// Set output intent for uncalibrated color space. PDF/A requirement.
ICC_Profile icc = ICC_Profile.GetInstance(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemRoot") + #"\System32\spool\drivers\color\sRGB Color Space Profile.icm");
writer.SetOutputIntents("Custom", "", "http://www.color.org", "sRGB IEC61966-2.1", icc);
}
//register font used in html
FontFactory.Register(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SystemRoot") + "\\Fonts\\ARIALUNI.TTF", "arial unicode ms");
//adding custom style attributes to html specific tasks. Can be used instead of css
//this one is a must fopr display of utf8 language specific characters (čćžđpš)
iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet ST = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet();
ST.LoadTagStyle("body", "encoding", "Identity-H");
worker.SetStyleSheet(ST);
worker.StartDocument();
worker.Parse(reader);
worker.EndDocument();
worker.Close();
document.Close();
}
}
}