convert htm files to pdf

[BlueSky]

I am trying to convert .htm files to .pdf. Can anyone recommend me a
good tool? Thanks in advance for any info.

 

[Marc Gravell]

For basic html, HTMLDOC by "easy software products" does a reasonable job,
while having plenty of options and meta-markup switches (e.g. to change page
size half way through a document).

The current version (1.8) doesn't support css (or even html beyond 1.3) so
use with caution ;-p

Marc

 

[BlueSky]

Thanks for your reply, Marc. I have css in my html pages. Is there any
other tool out there that works with .NET and below $2k?

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello BlueSky,

I'd recomed to use XSLT Formatting Objects for this. Only problem is to find
..NET parser for this
There are a lot of XSLT-FO Java parsers, but recently in this month smb wrote
about several parsers for .NET

Another solution is to find .net PDF tools (google, there are several free
of them)

B> I am trying to convert .htm files to .pdf. Can anyone recommend me a
B> good tool? Thanks in advance for any info.
B>
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WBR,
Michael Nemtsev :: blog: http://spaces.msn.com/laflour

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not
cease to be insipid." (c) Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[Marc Gravell]

I'm working offline, so this reply may be out of date, however - I should
not that v1.9 (beta code available in the public repo) allegedly supports
css etc; I haven't tried it, and since it isn't released yet you'd need to
compile it yourself, but...

"works with .Net"

Well, it comes as a console exe, but you can easily hide the window and
seamlessly integrate both input and output using stdin / stdout / stderr
streaming via the Process class in .Net. But it is coded as native C/C++,
not C#.

Other conversion software may be more suitable for your needs - but when I
last evaluated the various options (several years ago), HTMLDOC got my
recommendation for value, speed, low CPU impact, file size, options, etc...

And no, I don't work for them - just a happy customer.

Marc