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Kendo UI for MVC: Export to Pdf not working

I am using #(Html.Kendo().Grid in my .cshtml page in mvc application.
I want to export the contents of the grid in the form of a pdf.
I have tried following approaches:
1)
.ToolBar(tools => tools.Pdf())
.Pdf(pdf => pdf
.AllPages()
.PaperSize("A4")
.Margin("2cm", "1cm", "1cm", "1cm")
.Landscape()
.FileName("Kendo UI Grid Export.pdf")
)
$("#exportToPdf").click(function(e) {
var grid = $("#CommentsGrid").data("kendoGrid");
grid.saveAsPDF();
});
In both the approaches I am facing the same problem i.e on clicking Export to pdf button I am able to see a stuck progress bar and my screen is freezed.
Please help me to get out of this situation.
Thanking you in advance.
Code sample is appreciated.

I found the problem.
The DejaVu fonts which are must for default Export To Pdf were missing in my case.
The expected default location of this font is supposed to be: Content/kendo/fonts/DejaVu
I just added DejaVu and the pdf is downloaded.

Finding CSS selector path for Selenium C#

I am new to Selenium C# automation. Tried finding on web but did not get any help.
The html code looks like this. I need to find the element and then click it using CSS. The site only runs on IE.
<tbody>
<tr class="t-state-selected">
<td>Purchased</td>
<td class="">768990192</td>

I know web links can disappear, but here are a few I use when trying to figure out how to locate elements using Selenium's C# WebDriver:
https://automatetheplanet.com/selenium-webdriver-locators-cheat-sheet/
https://saucelabs.com/resources/articles/selenium-tips-css-selectors
https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/book/web_development/9781849515740/1
The bottom line is that you're selecting by id, class, or XPath. Each of these can be tested directly on the page using the F12 browser tools. For example, to find the first comment on your question above, you could try this in the console:
$x("//div[#id='mainbar']//tbody[#class='js-comments-list']/tr")
Here's another SO post with a quick and dirty answer.
And here is the official documentation from Selenium on how to locate UI elements.

To click on the number 768990192 which is dynamic we have to construct a CssSelector as follows :
driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("tr.t-state-selected td:nth-of-type(2)")).Click();

You're really not giving us much info to work. I will try my best to accommodate. Even though the presented HTML is not enough to give an indication of the format and you've not presented any code of your current solution.
string url = "https://www.google.com";
IWebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//tr[#class='t-state-selected']")).Click();
This little code snippet.
Creates a internet explorer driver.
Goes to the url of your choice.
And then clicks the table row that has a class that equals "t-state-selected'. Which my guess is all or none of the table rows.

Google docs embedded document not showing until resize?

I have a problem in which sometimes (not clear when exactly), displaying an embedded document with docs.google.com does not show the document until I resize the browser window.
Grab some popcorn, here's a movie that shows the problem:
Here's my code:
HTML:
<iframe runat="server" id="frame" style="width:100%;height:600px;border:0;"></iframe>
C# Code begind (in Page_Load method):
frame.Attributes["src"] = "https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://example.com/1.doc&embedded=true";
I tried reproducing it by browsing directly to https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://example.com/1.doc&embedded=true but it never happens this way.
Note: Sometimes the document is never displayd at all, as if it was never loaded, and the iFrame remains totaly blank.
Any ideas how to fix this?

You could try to setup a default document size. This is what I do to print envelopes from Google Docs
var envelope10={};
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.PAGE_HEIGHT]=296;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.PAGE_WIDTH]=684;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] = 'Calibri';
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 18;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.BOLD] = true;
envelope10[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING]=1;

itextsharp hyperlink a image and have it open in default viewer when picked

I have a pdf file created with itextsharp with images in the file. I would like to put a hyperlink in the file that if you pick the picture it will open that picture in a picture viewer. I can set a hyperlink to a web address but have no idea how to get it to open a file. Below is the code, yes I know that c:\test.jpg is a bad hardcoded file name but it is just a test. When you click the picture it does nothing but I have no idea how to tell it what to do.
iTextSharp.text.Image pic =TextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(comment.examplePic);
pic.ScaleToFit(200f, 200f);
Chunk cImage = new Chunk(pic, 0, 0, false);
Anchor anchor = new Anchor(cImage);
anchor.Reference = "c:\\test.jpg";
doc.Add(pic);
doc.Add(anchor);

A PDF is self-contained. This means that all the resources needed to show the PDF are (usually) stored inside the PDF (exceptions are for instance fonts that can be retrieved from the operating system).
When you have an image that is shown on a PDF page, the bytes of that image are stored in what we call an Image XObject. An XObject is an object that is external to the page, but that is stored as a separate object inside the PDF file.
You are asking to serve the image bytes stored inside this separate object to a viewer on the operating system. This is impossible. I don't know of any viewer that can take those bytes and somehow forward them to an image viewer.
I can think of three possible workarounds. I don't know if any of these workarounds is acceptable to you.
1. Serve the image online
You could put the image on a server and use the code you have in your snippet to link to that online image. Of course: this will only work if the person viewing the document is online and clicks OK when his viewer asks him if it's OK to link to a resources on the internet.
2. Serve the image as an annotation
In this case, you create an annotation for which you create an appearance that renders that same image XObject in the annotation layer (all annotations are shown on top of the page content). You can easily change the visibility status of an annotation to make it invisible (in your case, this would be the default status) or visible (in your case, this would be triggered by a JavaScript action when clicking the link).
There's an example of such an annotation here: Advertisement. If you open advertisement.pdf, you see an image with a button that says "Close this advertisement". Once you click that, the status of the annotation will be changed to invisible. You could do something similar, but the other way round: click a link to make it visible instead of invisible.
This solution doesn't depend on an external viewer, the image is shown in the PDF viewer.
3. Add the image as optional content
Starting with PDF 1.5, PDF supports optional content. See for instance the OptionalContentExample. In this example, we have some questions and answers, but the answers are not visible by default. See layer_actions.pdf. There are links "on / off / toggle" to make the answers visible or invisible.
You could do the same with images: you could add them to a layer that is invisible by default, but that can be made visible if somebody clicks a link. However: this requires a viewer that supports OCG (optional content groups) and the actions to change the status of these OCGs. For instance: if you would try the layer_actions.pdf example in the PDF viewer in Chrome, it won't work, but if you download the PDF and open it in Adobe Reader, you'll see the behavior I described.
Summarized:
You are asking something that is impossible, but there are workarounds. Please post another question if you have chosen a workaround and you don't succeed in making that workaround word (but please take into account that not all viewers support every workaround).

no offence but too much knowledge sometimes makes you ignorant of small things.
simple solution to this problem is here
http://kuujinbo.info/iTextSharp/imageAnchor.aspx
sample code that i implemented works like charm
PdfPCell p1 = new PdfPCell();
p1 = new PdfPCell();
p1.Padding = 0;
p1.Border = 0;
PdfPTable nav = new PdfPTable(1);
nav.WidthPercentage = 100;
nav.SpacingAfter = 12;
navbarImg.Annotation= new Annotation(0, 0, 0, 0, ur);
p1.Image = navbarImg;
nav.AddCell(p1);
_doc.Add(nav);

Building a PDF with links from HTML and other PDFs with abcPDF

I've got some code that builds a PDF from an HTML template, then attaches several other PDFs to make one big PDF using abcPDF 7.
All this works fine and dandy -- however, I'd like to make some links in the HTML portion of the PDF to jump down to one of the several attached PDFs.
I tried creating links and anchors using the technique referenced here, by putting the
Link to another page
link in the HTML, then putting the anchor
<div><a name="elementId">A div that's on another page</a></div>
as an added-on paste-over on the top of the first page of the PDF I wanted to jump to.
I can see the text of the anchor just fine, and the link to it is blue, but it doesn't do anything.
As the next attempt, I've created bookmarks that work as well. Can someone point me in the direction to go back and adjust the links in the HTML portion to use them to jump to the bookmarks?
I apologize in advance for a lack of code, and I'm not asking for any code now.. I'd just like a more general way to go about it, like "try something like this." I'm not having much luck finding anything that is close to what I'm trying to do, not even on WebSuperGoo's website.

This method has worked for me in the latest ABCpdf version (9) Add a bookmark to each page in your document:
For i = 1 to pdf.PageCount
pdf.PageNumber = i
pdf.AddBookmark("Page " & i, True)
Next
Then where you want to insert a link you can reference the bookmark - in this case we create a table of contents by looping through each bookmark we've created:
For Each bm As Bookmark In pdf.Bookmark
toc &= "<Font annots='goto:" + bm.Page.PageNumber.ToString() + "'>" & bm.Title & "</Font><br>"
Next
pdf.AddHtml(toc)
The Websupergoo team supplied me with some example code and that's what this is based off of - so thanks to them!