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C# Wrapper for WKHTMLtoPDF
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using System; | |
using System.Collections.Generic; | |
using System.Linq; | |
using System.Security; | |
using System.Web; | |
using System.Web.Hosting; | |
namespace PdfGenerator | |
{ | |
public class PdfGenerator | |
{ | |
/// <summary> | |
/// Convert Html page at a given URL to a PDF file using open-source tool wkhtml2pdf | |
/// wkhtml2pdf can be found at: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ | |
/// Useful code used in the creation of this I love the good folk of StackOverflow!: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1331926/calling-wkhtmltopdf-to-generate-pdf-from-html/1698839 | |
/// An online manual can be found here: http://madalgo.au.dk/~jakobt/wkhtmltoxdoc/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-doc.html | |
/// | |
/// Ensure that the output folder specified is writeable by the ASP.NET process of IIS running on your server | |
/// | |
/// This code requires that the Windows installer is installed on the relevant server / client. This can either be found at: | |
/// http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list - download wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-installer.exe | |
/// </summary> | |
/// <param name="pdfOutputLocation"></param> | |
/// <param name="outputFilenamePrefix"></param> | |
/// <param name="urls"></param> | |
/// <param name="options"></param> | |
/// <param name="pdfHtmlToPdfExePath"></param> | |
/// <returns>the URL of the generated PDF</returns> | |
public static string HtmlToPdf(string pdfOutputLocation, string outputFilenamePrefix, string[] urls, | |
string[] options = null, | |
string pdfHtmlToPdfExePath = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\wkhtmltopdf\\wkhtmltopdf.exe") | |
{ | |
string urlsSeparatedBySpaces = string.Empty; | |
try | |
{ | |
//Determine inputs | |
if ((urls == null) || (urls.Length == 0)) | |
throw new Exception("No input URLs provided for HtmlToPdf"); | |
else | |
urlsSeparatedBySpaces = String.Join(" ", urls); //Concatenate URLs | |
string outputFolder = pdfOutputLocation; | |
string outputFilename = outputFilenamePrefix + "_" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd-hh-mm-ss-fff") + ".PDF"; // assemble destination PDF file name | |
var p = new System.Diagnostics.Process() | |
{ | |
StartInfo = | |
{ | |
FileName = pdfHtmlToPdfExePath, | |
Arguments = ((options == null) ? "" : String.Join(" ", options)) + " " + urlsSeparatedBySpaces + " " + outputFilename, | |
UseShellExecute = false, // needs to be false in order to redirect output | |
RedirectStandardOutput = true, | |
RedirectStandardError = true, | |
RedirectStandardInput = true, // redirect all 3, as it should be all 3 or none | |
WorkingDirectory = HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(outputFolder) | |
} | |
}; | |
p.Start(); | |
// read the output here... | |
var output = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); | |
var errorOutput = p.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); | |
// ...then wait n milliseconds for exit (as after exit, it can't read the output) | |
p.WaitForExit(60000); | |
// read the exit code, close process | |
int returnCode = p.ExitCode; | |
p.Close(); | |
// if 0 or 2, it worked so return path of pdf | |
if ((returnCode == 0) || (returnCode == 2)) | |
return outputFolder + outputFilename; | |
else | |
throw new Exception(errorOutput); | |
} | |
catch (Exception exc) | |
{ | |
throw new Exception("Problem generating PDF from HTML, URLs: " + urlsSeparatedBySpaces + ", outputFilename: " + outputFilenamePrefix, exc); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} |
I am Getting this message {"The directory name is invalid"} to FileName = pdfHtmlToPdfExePath, @johnnyreilly any Idea?
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This has saved me some good time, thank you very much (: