Invalid XHTML. RadEditor content should be correct XHTML in order to export to PDF in UI for ASP.NET AJAX Editor

Jaime

7 posts

Member since:
Jun 2009

Posted 01 Dec 2011 Link to this post

Hello, i am sending the html code of a page to display it in a radeditor so i can export it to rtf or to pdf. However, i'm getting this error:

Invalid XHTML. RadEditor content should be correct XHTML in order to export to PDF.
Parse error:
Declaración DTD inesperada. Línea 674, posición 13.
at line:
<body><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

this is how my radeditor is defined:
<telerik:RadEditor ID="redCertificate" runat="server" Width="90%" Height="800px"
                Language="es-ES" onexportcontent="redCertificate_ExportContent">
                <exportsettings openinnewwindow="true" filename="Certificate">
                <Rtf PageHeader="RadEditor content" />
            </exportsettings>
                <content></content>
            </telerik:RadEditor>

and this is the code behind

protected void btnPDF_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            redCertificate.ExportToPdf();
        }

Any ideas what could be causing this error?

thanks in advance

Princy

17421 posts

Member since:
Mar 2007

Posted 02 Dec 2011 Link to this post

Hello,

Take a look into the following demo.
Editor / Export to PDF

Thanks,
Princy.

J2K

34 posts

Member since:
Sep 2005

Posted 18 Dec 2012 Link to this post

Have the identical problem, and always have had this issue with PDF export feature used by Telerik. Using the Rad Editor, I check W3C validation service which reports document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but when exporting to a PDF using Telerik's export, the yellow page of death appears. Using the Dec 2012 version of Telerik controls.

This document was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!

Rumen

Admin

14351 posts

Posted 19 Dec 2012 Link to this post

Hi,

My suggestion is to start to remove content until you find which tag/class or style is causing the problem. You can find unsupported scenarios in the following help article: PDF Export, e.g.

Image transparency
Right-to-left fonts
Nested DIV elements with absolute position
Nested DIV elements with specified width or height
Automatic text clipping
Client-side binding
Medium trust

If you are unable to find the reason for the problem, please, provide the problematic content for examination on our end.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

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ADV Dev

5 posts

Member since:
Dec 2013

Posted 11 Jan 2015 in reply to Rumen Link to this post

Hi,

Any ETA on when Automatic text clipping will be implemented in PDF export.

Kind Regards,

Ianko

Admin

1940 posts

Posted 14 Jan 2015 Link to this post

Hello,

There are no firm plans for this to be updated with the currently used PDF exporting functionality. In the feature a new PDF generator will be used, but there is no firm estimation when this will happen.

Currently, I can suggest extending the PDF exporting functionality by using a custom or third-party PDF library. You can refer to this blog post for further details on the matter - Using an external library for the export to PDF functionality in Telerik’s ASP.NET Editor.

Regards,

Ianko
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