View Razor to PDF

Question

I need to convert Views of my MVC 5 application to C# using Razor to PDF. I already searched, and the free tools depend on iTextSharp, which I searched for has a different marking.

But I need to convert any HTML page to PDF, that is, convert my existing pages with the lowest cost of time and future maintenance.

Any suggestions, free or paid that you use. Is there any solution that puts header and footer of any HTML?

Answer 1

Two options:

• Razorpdf2 (package of my own, supports all documents of the old Razorpdf + iTextSharp 5 package): https://www.nuget.org/packages/RazorPDF2/
  • Receives as input an HTML View using the method PdfActionResult;
  • You can input a View with iTextSharp 4 tags using the method PdfResult;
  • Examples using iTextSharp 4 tags: https://github.com/RazorAnt/RazorPDFSample
  • Answer that I put a complete example with iTextSharp 4 tags
• Rotary (does not work in Azure): https://www.nuget.org/packages/Rotativa
  • Receives as input a View in HTML;
  • Examples: https://github.com/webgio/Rotativa/tree/master/Rotativa.Demo

Answer 2

What’s wrong with iTextSharp notation? Following the notation as is here worked with me, following the process:

1 - saving the content of the page I want to convert to pdf
2 - escaping tags (in order to send to the controller) and sending to the controller
3 - [controller] sending to the method that converts (which is the same as the answer)
4 - reconverted string (applying tags again)
5 effectively following what was in the post (the difference is that html is my string containing everything I want to save in pdf)