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Lug16 · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

Hello everyone:

I'm understanding the PdfSharp library and I want to create a PDF from a existing ASP page in my application, I've read the clock example, and I dont know how to create the pdf from the current page (with images and styles).

Any help will be grateful

Thank you

stardust · Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

Havn't had a look at the Clock example yet, but I would imagine you need to parse the HTML in the redendered asp page and translate the parsed HTML document into a PDF.

Sounds like what I am trying to do but I havn't got a page to begin with, all I have is data from databases.

Lug16 · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

stardust · Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 5

I don't have any example for you because there are so many ways to parse HTML into some kind of Object collection which is application specific. What you can do is try to look at some example of parsing XML and get some ideas from those.

Once you have the Object representation of the HTML document, you then need to defind some rules how to translate those objects into PdfSharp object or using the DOM objects from MigraDoc API.

For example:
If you have translated a <p> into a customParagraph object, then you can translate it into the Paragraph object in MigraDoc. Then assign the content of the <p> tag as the text of the Paragraph.

Of coz you need to take into account of tags can be nested.

Lug16 · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 3

Hello Again...

I've read the clock example again( http://www.pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=36 ) and it looks like the whole asp page is converted to a MemoryStream object.
The clock is created with de XGraphics functions and the stream is loaded with it.
But I really try to get the stream data from my current page in asp(without any XGraphics creation, just a repeater with some information) and load it in the pdfDocument but it just create an empty pdf file...

I hope your help in this issue...

Thanks for your replies...

Moviaa · Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

Do someone know how to achieve this?
Is this at all possible with PDFSharp?

Thomas Hoevel · Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 387 Location: Cologne, Germany