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Satish Patil
Satish Patil

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HTMLtoPdf - Converts HTML content to PDF using chrome executable

Note : Requires Chrome executable

Nuget Link - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Sats.HTMLtoPdf

Github link - https://github.com/satsvelke/HTMLtoPdf

Usage

           var url = @"d:\Vaccination.html";
          var chromePath = @"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe";

          // returns byte array of file 
          var pdf = new ChromeOptions().AddOptions(b =>
                                      {
                                          b.Headless();
                                          b.DisableGPU();
                                          b.WithoutHeader();

                                      }).Pdf(new ChromeDetails() { ChromePath = chromePath, HtmlPath = url
 OutputPath = @"d:\print.pdf" // optional (add if 
             Environment.CurrentDirectory does not have access rights)
         });

           File.WriteAllBytes(@"d:\print.pdf", pdf);  
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Version : 2.1

        var url = @"d:\test.html";
        var chromePath = @"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe";

        var output = new ChromeOptions().AddOptions(b =>
                            {
                                b.Headless();
                                b.DisableGPU();
                                b.WithoutHeader();

                            }).ToPdf(new ChromeDetails()
                            {
                                ChromePath = chromePath,
                                HtmlPath = url,
                                DeleteOutputFile = true, //optional
                               // OutputPath = @"d:\print.pdf" // (add if Environment.CurrentDirectory does not have access rights)
                            });


        File.WriteAllBytes(@"d:\print.pdf", output.FileDetails.File);
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output.FileDetails.File will have byte array of created pdf
output.ProcessDetails will have output details like errors

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