Question

Ok, so I’m rendering a partial view control in memory that generates HTML that I would like to get to a PDF renderer. The renderer only takes a string as an argument. I have a MemoryStream containing the HTML that I need to get to the renderer.

This is what I’d like to do:

• inStream is the MemoryStream of HTML from the partial view.
• doc is an instance of the PDF renderer that accepts HTML as an argument but only as a string.

var stream = new StreamReader(inStream);
var html = stream.ReadToEnd();
doc.AddHtml(html);

The problem is that the html string has escape characters everywhere that destroy the HTML.

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I’m experimenting right now with different solutions and products in order to generate PDFs from my web app. I had an XSL-FO to PDF renderer set up that accepted a Stream as an argument and that was working just fine. If there is no way to do this then I will just look for another solution. I’m just curious if it’s possible.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The string does not contain the backslashes. Only the debugger is showing them. The intention was to make the representation valid C# syntax for a literal string. It is a bit confusing, admittedly.