Easy Method to Convert HTML to PDF with C#,VB.NET

PDF (Portable Document Format), as I said in many former articles, owns a lot of functions, such as it meets Legal Document Requirements, a “read only” document which cannot be altered without leaving an electronic footprint, compression of a Scanned Image into a PDF File is Sizeable and so on.

Actually, the character of PDF format is far more, and I personally think that whenever how good this format is, if it cannot be converted by other file formats, its function cannot be fully used. So the reasons why PDF format is such popular should not be only attributed to the characteristics, but also its applicability. That means PDF can be converted by many file formats, also can be converted to various formats.

Today, I am very glad to share an easy method to convert HTML to PDF with C#,V.NET by using Spire.PDF, which is a PDF creation component that enables your .NET/Silverlight applications to read, write and manipulate PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat. Please follow the below steps.

 

Procedure

Step1. Create a PDF Document.

Step2. Load the HTML file from the system.
I insert a url directly in the project, you also can load an existing HTML file that you want to convert.
Step3. Save the HTML file to PDF format, and launch it.

Main code:

Convert HTML to PDF with C#:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Spire.Pdf;
namespace HTML2PDF
{
    class Program
    {
        [STAThread]//do not lose it if your project is not in single thread        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Create a pdf document.
            PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
            String url = http://www.e-iceblue.com/;
            doc.LoadFromHTML(url, false, true, true);
            //Save pdf file.
            doc.SaveToFile("sample.pdf");
            doc.Close();
            //Launching the Pdf file.
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("sample.pdf");
        }
    }
}  

Convert HTML to PDF with VB.NET:

Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Linq
Imports System.Text
Imports Spire.Pdf
Namespace HTML2PDF
         Class Program
                 <STAThread> _                 Private Shared Sub Main(args As String())
                          'Create a pdf document.
                          Dim doc As New PdfDocument()
                          Dim url As [String] = http://www.e-iceblue.com/
                          doc.LoadFromHTML(url, False, True, True)
                          'Save pdf file.
                          doc.SaveToFile("sample.pdf")
                          doc.Close()
                          'Launching the Pdf file.
                          System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("sample.pdf")
                 End Sub
         End Class
End Namespace

Preview

Besides converted from HTML, PDF can be converted by EXCEL, Word, Text, XML, Image and RTF. If you want to give it a try, you can Freely Download Spire. PDF


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