They provide easy to use seamless integration with C#. Which uses the webkit engine for rendering the pages so it can also parse css style sheets. Wkhtmtopdf binary for converting html to pdf.

The most hated 'Unable to load DLL 'wkhtmltox.dll'' error reportedįor anyone who want to generate pdf from html in simpler applications / environments I leave my old post as suggestion.

It uses temp files to generate the pdf, and in cases Like AWSĮC2 which has really slow disk i/o it is a big performance.

So you have to either host itĪs a service on another machine or you will experience processing spikes and memory consumption within your production Wkhtmltopdf is running as a standalone application, so its not.Manage user permissions and grant 'write' access to where

wkhtmltopdf is creating files within your server so you have to.(Actually is impossible withing azure as mentioned by theĮlastic Beanstalk etc) it's a nightmare to configure that environment only for wkhtmltopdf to work. Is running within a constrained environment like ( Azure If you manage your own virtual machine its ok.just to avoid 'invalid format exceptions' Had to try several workarounds including conditional First of all wkhtmltopdf is C++ implemented not C#, and you willĮxperience various problems embedding it within your C# code,Įspecially while switching between 32bit and 64bit builds of your.

I personally would avoid using wkhtmltopdf - based solutions on Hosted Enterprise applications for the following reasons. I tried to integrate wkhtmltopdf solutions on my project and had a bunch of hurdles. Of course someone can use the continued 5+ paid version. Until version 4.1.6 iTextSharp was licensed under the LGPL licence and versions until 4.16 (or there may be also forks) are available as packages and can be freely used. Var pdf = .GeneratePdf(html, 4) Ī very Good Alternate Is a Free Version of iTextSharp Using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream()) public static Byte PdfSharpConvert(String html) Download HtmlRenderer.PdfSharp nuget package.HtmlRenderer.PdfSharp is a 100% fully C# managed code, easy to use, thread safe and most importantly FREE ( New BSD License) solution. (After trying wkhtmltopdf and suggesting to avoid it) EDIT: New Suggestion HTML Renderer for PDF using PdfSharp

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