Hello Telerik team,
I am using radeditor for creating the Newsletter and then converting them to pdf using exporttopdf() . only problem is that pdf does not take the css . please can you provide the way to provide css to pdf . A small demo would be helpfull .
Also is there a way to provide background colour to the pdf ?
Thanks in advance
Vipin Ajmera
I am using radeditor for creating the Newsletter and then converting them to pdf using exporttopdf() . only problem is that pdf does not take the css . please can you provide the way to provide css to pdf . A small demo would be helpfull .
Also is there a way to provide background colour to the pdf ?
Thanks in advance
Vipin Ajmera
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answered on 24 Aug 2009, 02:57 PM
Vipin,
It seems that built-in Telerik converter doesn't support CSS formatting when converting to PDF. In our case we found that 3rd party library - Winnovative PDF Converter did what we needed. Below is the sample of the code we were using:
There is more information available here - http://www.winnovative-software.com/Getting%20Started%20with%20Winnovative%20HTML%20to%20PDF%20Converter%20Demo.aspx
Hope this helps,
Andrei
It seems that built-in Telerik converter doesn't support CSS formatting when converting to PDF. In our case we found that 3rd party library - Winnovative PDF Converter did what we needed. Below is the sample of the code we were using:
| protected void showPDF_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) |
| { |
| string htmlString = "<html>" + RadEditor1.Content + "</html>"; |
| PdfConverter pdfConverter = new PdfConverter(); |
| pdfConverter.LicenseKey = |
| "Q2hzY3Jjc2N3bXNjcHJtcnFtenp6eg=="; |
| pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfPageSize = PdfPageSize.A4; |
| pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfCompressionLevel = PdfCompressionLevel.Normal; |
| pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfPageOrientation = PDFPageOrientation.Portrait; |
| pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.ShowHeader = false; |
| pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.ShowFooter = false; |
| byte[] pdfBytes = null; |
| pdfBytes = pdfConverter.GetPdfBytesFromHtmlString(htmlString); |
| System.Web.HttpResponse response = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response; |
| response.Clear(); |
| response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "binary/octet-stream"); |
| response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=ConversionResult.pdf;size=" |
| + pdfBytes.Length.ToString()); |
| response.Flush(); |
| response.BinaryWrite(pdfBytes); |
| response.Flush(); |
| response.End(); |
| } |
There is more information available here - http://www.winnovative-software.com/Getting%20Started%20with%20Winnovative%20HTML%20to%20PDF%20Converter%20Demo.aspx
Hope this helps,
Andrei