HTML to PDF conversion using iTextsharp

The following code snippet demonstrates how to convert a html file into PDF format using iText library in VB.NET.

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First we need to add reference to iTextSharp library.

' Add references

Imports System.IO
Imports iTextSharp.text
Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf

' Read html file to a string
Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader("YOUR HTML FILE PATH WIIH NAME")
Dim line As String

line = sr.ReadToEnd
sr.Close()

' Code to convert to pdf
Dim doc As New Document(PageSize.LETTER, 80, 50, 30, 65)
Dim fsNew As New StringReader(line)
Dim document As New Document(PageSize.A4, 80, 50, 30, 65)

        Using fs As New FileStream("YOUR PDF FILE PATH WITH NAME", FileMode.Create)
            PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs)
            Using stringReader As New StringReader(line)
                Dim parsedList As System.Collections.Generic.List(Of IElement) = html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker.ParseToList(stringReader, Nothing)
                document.Open()

' parse each html object and add it to the pdf document

                For Each item As Object In parsedList
                    document.Add(DirectCast(item, IElement))
                Next

document.Close()

End Using

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Related Tags:
HTML, PDF, Conversion, iTextSharp

Author: Amrita Dash

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