I need a quick solution that will convert HTML doc to PDF and still maintain the same look and feel with pre-populated data and also maintain links in the PDF doc. Any solutions?
mtyide 0 Newbie Poster
rproffitt 2,662 "Nothing to see here." Moderator
Given the tags asp.net and C# I don't know of a quick as in ready to code solution. Now if you had PHP on the backend, there are PDF utilities to create PDFs. What have you found for asp.net so far?
mtyide commented: They are all costly solutions. Need something quick and free, can't find one. +3
Reverend Jim 4,968 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators. Moderator Featured Poster
There's always print to PDF from within the browser..
mtyide commented: This has to be done programmatically. +3
Dani 4,329 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
According to a Google search, Syncfusion seems to be a solution but unfortunately it isn't free.
Personally, I use wkhtmltopdf, which is open source, but I am in a Linux environment and use it with PHP. I don't know if there's a way to use it with C#.
mtyide commented: I need a free and robust solution, this has to be a nuget package I can simply add on to my project. +3
rproffitt 2,662 "Nothing to see here." Moderator
Read https://www.ghacks.net/2020/12/09/wkhtmltopdf-is-an-open-source-command-line-tool-that-can-save-web-pages-as-a-pdf-or-an-image/ about an open source app. Maybe but remember free doesn't always mean easy.
Dani 4,329 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
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