HTML to PDF

[Mark Rae]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend an HTML to PDF converter, specifically one which
supports CSS? I've been looking at HTMLDOC from EasySW
(http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) but that doesn't support CSS - there's talk
of an upgrade which will, but the manufacturers have no idea when or even if
this will be available.

Doesn't have to be a native .NET solution, though that would be preferable.

Any assistance gratefully received.

Mark Rae

 

[Lintie]

Hi,

Try ActivePDF (www.activepdf.com). According to the documentaion they
support css (or at least styles in html) in their IE-engine.

Patrick

 

[Mark Rae]

Patrick,

Try ActivePDF (www.activepdf.com). According to the documentaion they
support css (or at least styles in html) in their IE-engine.

Thanks for the suggestion. My fault, I failed to mention that I'm looking
for a desktop solution for a C# WinForms app I'm writing.

Basically, users enter data upon which complex calculations are performed.
Then they have the option to print out the results. I want to use PDF so
that the documents created can be freely distributed but not edited. I was
hoping to use HTML / CSS as an intermediary step so that users could create
their own stylesheets which would then be picked up and applied on the fly
during the document conversion process. According to the activePDF web site,
their conversion toolkit is server-based only.

HTMLDOC (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) pretty much does what I want, with
the single exception of CSS support. As I mentioned, they're talking of a
new version with this functionality, but no firm date as yet.

There are several products on the market (e.g. Siberex) which support
dynamic creation of PDF documents through managed C# code, but they are very
hard to use and almost impossible to customise dynamically.

As it's very easy to generate HTML from C#, and as cascading stylesheets are
very easy to write by end users, this is the route I'm hoping to take.

Thanks for the reply.

Mark

 

[Du Dang]

take a look at this program
http://www.visagesoft.com/pdfprinter/

it allows you to convert any format that printable to a pdf file.
it also included a SDK that let you use its COM to perform the convertion.

hope that helps,

Du