Question

I need to create a pdf from .aspx page. In .aspx page user will enter so many values in textbox and gridview. It also has some tabs with different sections. I did used iTextSharp for creating simple pdf. But here i need to get the values from the page and need to read the tab controls. So is it posible to use iTextSharp or is there any opensource dll available for converting .aspx to pdf..

Give me some idea?

Thanks..

Answer 1

By using ITextsharp library,this can be done by using HTMLWorker :

First Create String builder;

 private StringBuilder sb;

Then add pdf heading from textbox value as:

sb.Append("<p style=\"text-align: center;font-size:" + fontSize + "px;font-weight:" + (bold ? "bold" : "normal") + ";\">" + txtHeading + "</p>");

Then add subject to pdf from textbox value as:

sb.Append("<table><tr valign=\"top\"><td>Subj:</td><td style=\"font-size:" + fontSize + "px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;\">" + txtSubject.text + "</td></tr></table><br />");

Then add paragraphs from textbox value as:

sb.Append("<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size:" + fontSize + "px;font-weight:" + (bold ? "bold" : "normal") + ";\">" + txtParagraph + "</p><br/>");

for table creation take values in string[] array

sb.Append("<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0.5\"><thead><tr align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">");
            foreach (string str in StringArray)
            {
                sb.Append("<th><strong>" + str + "</strong></th>");
            }
            sb.Append("</tr></thead>");

And so on.You can create pdf from textbox values of aspx page.