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itext sharp generated pdf should open in new tab in mvc c#

$(document).off("click", "#btnPreviewAndDownload").on("click", "#btnPreviewAndDownload", function (e) {
var QuestionPaperID = 1;
var SubjectCode = '#Model.Model.SubjectPapperCode';
window.location = "#Url.Action("PreviewAndDownloadQuestionPaper", "TeamCreation")?QuestionPaperID=" + QuestionPaperID + "&SubjectPapperCode=" + SubjectCode;
});
private FileResult CreateQuestionPaperPDF(List<CustomMainQuestionDTO> questionDTOList, byte[] byteDoc, MemoryStream memStream)
{
Document doc = new Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4, 70, 40, 70, 40);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, memStream);
Font fontH1 = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 11, Font.BOLD);
doc.Open();
doc.NewPage();
Paragraph Heading = new Paragraph(questionDTOList[0].SubjectName, fontH4);
Heading.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
doc.Add(Heading);
foreach (var questionDTO in questionDTOList)
{
doc.Add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(questionDTO.QuestionParentQuestionMappingID.ToString()))
{
MainQuestion(questionDTO, fontH2, doc, fontH1Bold);
}
else
{
SubQuestion(questionDTO, fontH2, fontH1, doc);
}
}
doc.Close();
byteDoc = memStream.GetBuffer();
string fileName = "QuestionPaper - " + questionDTOList[0].SubjectName + ".pdf";
return File(byteDoc, System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Octet, fileName);
}
i have created and aligned the question paper format using Itextsharp and downloaded it.
it is downloading in window but unable to open in new tab? How i can open the generated PDF in new tab?

You can try using following code to generate your pdf it will display on your browser.
string filenm = "test";
Document doc = new Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4, 70, 40, 70, 40);
var fpath = Server.MapPath("~/PDFFiles/FunctionProspectus/");
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream(fpath + filenm, FileMode.Create));
Font fontH1 = new Font(Font.FontFamily.HELVETICA, 11, Font.BOLD);
doc.Open();
doc.NewPage();
Paragraph Heading = new Paragraph("Test");
Heading.Alignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
doc.Add(Heading);
doc.Add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
doc.Close();
string contentType = "application/pdf";
return File(Server.MapPath("~/PDFFiles/FunctionProspectus/") + filenm, contentType);
In one of my project i have used this and is working well.

If I'm reading the question correctly, you are able to create and return the PDF just fine, but it is causing the browser to navigate to the document instead of opening separately. The reason for this would be because you're changing window.location to the address of the action producing the PDF. One way to avoid this and simplify the code would be to use a hyperlink with the "target" attribute set to "_blank" instead of using JavaScript to open it. You could also use window.open instead of setting the location if you wanted to keep using the JavaScript solution. Both of these will either open in a new tab or new browser window depending on browser and user preference settings.

create multiple page pdf from asp.net mvc?

I was trying to create a pdf dynamically and send it by attaching in the mail.
This is my code and it works perfectly for me.
public ActionResult sendmail()
{
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 100f, 0.0f);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms);
doc.Open(); //open doc for editing
doc.Add(new Paragraph("First Paragraph"));
doc.Add(new Paragraph("Second Paragraph"));
writer.CloseStream = false; //important
doc.Close(); //build the doc.
ms.Position = 0;
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
smtpClient.Host = "provider.com";
smtpClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("credentialmailid", "password");
MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage()
{
From = new MailAddress("from#gmail.com")
};
mailMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("to#gmail.com"));
mailMessage.Subject = "Pdf attached";
mailMessage.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(ms, "pdfname.pdf"));
smtpClient.Send(mailMessage);
return RedirectToAction("index");
}
Now my issue is : Document that I have to send is a purchase confirmation . it will have 3 pages. Many headings and styles will be there in it.
also some values I have to pass dynamically like who purchased it and date like wise a lot datas should pass dynamically
How to do this? I thought to create an Html of pdf file to be send and use something like this add parameters dynamically...
string mailpath = Server.MapPath("~/Mail/HtmlOF_pdfToSend.html");
string mailbody = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(mailpath);
mailbody = mailbody.Replace("##CompanyName", "Bhavin Merchant");
mailbody = mailbody.Replace("##BusinessType", "Bhavin business");

Fist You have to add iTextSharp dll then u have to add some packages :
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using iTextSharp.text.html;
using iTextSharp.text.xml;
using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;
then as per your question. you want to pass dynamically values so i post some syntax as example :
// Create a Document object
var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 25, 25);
var output = new MemoryStream();
// Create a new PdfWriter object, specifying the output stream
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
// Open the Document for writing
document.Open();
Suppose you have header in your pdf documnet so syntax will be :
var logo = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("~/images/it.jpg"));
logo.SetAbsolutePosition(300, 750);
document.Add(logo);
If you want to add phrase:
Phrase titl = new Phrase("\nE-Ticket\n");
titl.Font.SetStyle(Font.BOLD);
document.Add(titl);
Add lines :
Phrase titl1 = new Phrase("--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n");
titl1.Font.SetStyle(Font.BOLD);
document.Add(titl1);
Change the style of text :
Here you can change the font style & color.
Phrase title = new Phrase("Booking Date-" + txtDate1.Text + "\n");
title.Font.SetStyle(Font.BOLD);
document.Add(title);
If you want to add pdf table:-dt is data table.
PdfPTable UserInfoTable = new PdfPTable(dt.Columns.Count);
PdfPRow row = null;
UserInfoTable.AddCell(--add cell----);
document.Add(UserInfoTable);
Close the Document - this saves the document contents to the output stream
document.Close();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment;filename=Receipt-{0}.pdf", "hello"));
Response.BinaryWrite(output.ToArray())
Here I paste some example code as your question.

You can add more pages to the document like this:
doc.Open(); //open doc for editing
doc.Add(new Paragraph("First Paragraph"));
doc.newPage();
doc.add(new Paragraph("This is a new page =)"));

MVC - Convert PdfPTable to Html

I am working on downloading a PDF document. I have used PdfPTable to create a table. Below is my shortened code.
var document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 25, 25);
var output = new MemoryStream();
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
document.Open();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(2);
table.WidthPercentage = 80;
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Description", fntTableFontBold));
cell.HorizontalAlignment = Element.ALIGN_CENTER;
table.AddCell(cell);
......
document.Add(table);
document.Close();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", string.Format("attachment;filename={0}.pdf", "Journal"));
Response.BinaryWrite(output.ToArray());
All is working fine. Above code straight away downloads the PDF in browser.
Now i want to add Preview functionality, If the User clicks on Preview, He should see the HTML output.
How to convert this above code to show as HTML? There is lots of code & queries which are used for creating PdfPTable.

Creating a pdf using iTextSharp involves a lot of coding. You cannot render a pdf as HTML code (that I know of), but you can create an HTML first, convert it into a pdf and then render the pdf as stream to a browser. If you are creating the HTML first then you can use the html for preview.
Here is a block of code that I once wrote to convert html to pdf.
protected void ConvertHTMLToPDF(String HTMLCode, String fileName)
{
//Create PDF document
iTextSharp.text.Document doc = new iTextSharp.text.Document(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, new FileStream(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~") + "/Resources/Temp/" + fileName, FileMode.Create));
doc.Open();
foreach (IElement element in HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(HTMLCode), null))
{
doc.Add(element);
}
doc.Close();
//Response.End();
}

itextsharp html to pdf

I want to change some HTML in a pdf. All my html is in HTML string but I don't know how to pass it in correctly within iTextSharp.
public void PDF()
{
// Create a doc object
var doc = new doc(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 25, 25);
// Create a new PdfWrite object, writing the output to the file ~/PDFTemplate/SimpleFormFieldDemo.pdf
var output = new FileStream(Server.MapPath("t.pdf"), FileMode.Create);
var writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, output);
// Open the doc for writing
doc.Open();
//Add Wallpaper image to the pdf
var Wallpaper = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(Server.MapPath("hfc.png"));
Wallpaper.SetAbsolutePosition(0, 0);
Wallpaper.ScaleAbsolute(600, 840);
doc.Add(Wallpaper);
iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker hw = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker(doc);
StyleSheet css = new StyleSheet();
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "face", "Garamond");
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "encoding", "Identity-H");
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "size", "12pt");
hw.Parse(new StringReader(HTML));
doc.Close();
Response.Redirect("t.pdf");
}
If anyone knows how to make this work.. it be good.
Thanks
Dom

Please download The Best iText Questions on StackOverflow. It's a free ebook, you'll benefit from it.
Once you have downloaded is, go to the section entitled "Parsing XML and XHTML".
Allow me to quote from the answer to this question: RowSpan does not work in iTextSharp?
You are using HTMLWorker instead of XML Worker, and you are right:
HTMLWorker has no support for CSS. Saying CSS doesn't work in
iTextSharp is wrong. It doesn't work when you use HTMLWorker, but
that's documented: the CSS you need works in XML Worker.
Please throw away your code, and start anew using XML Worker.
There are many examples (simple ones as well as complex ones) in the book. Let me give you only one:
using (var fsOut = new FileStream(outputFile, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
using (var stringReader = new StringReader(result))
{
var document = new Document();
var pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fsOut);
pdfWriter.InitialLeading = 12.5f;
document.Open();
var xmlWorkerHelper = XMLWorkerHelper.GetInstance();
var cssResolver = new StyleAttrCSSResolver();
var xmlWorkerFontProvider = new XMLWorkerFontProvider();
foreach (string font in fonts)
{
xmlWorkerFontProvider.Register(font);
}
var cssAppliers = new CssAppliersImpl(xmlWorkerFontProvider);
var htmlContext = new HtmlPipelineContext(cssAppliers);
htmlContext.SetTagFactory(Tags.GetHtmlTagProcessorFactory());
PdfWriterPipeline pdfWriterPipeline = new PdfWriterPipeline(document, pdfWriter);
HtmlPipeline htmlPipeline = new HtmlPipeline(htmlContext, pdfWriterPipeline);
CssResolverPipeline cssResolverPipeline = new CssResolverPipeline(cssResolver, htmlPipeline);
XMLWorker xmlWorker = new XMLWorker(cssResolverPipeline, true);
XMLParser xmlParser = new XMLParser(xmlWorker);
xmlParser.Parse(stringReader);
document.Close();
}
}
(Source: iTextSharp XmlWorker: right-to-left)
If you want an easier example, take a look at the answers of these questions:
How to parse multiple HTML files into a single PDF?
How to add a rich Textbox (HTML) to a table cell?
...
The code that parses an HTML string and a CSS string to a list of iText(Sharp) elements is as simple as this:
ElementList list = XMLWorkerHelper.parseToElementList(html, css);
You can find more examples on the official iText web site.

Html to pdf some characters are missing (itextsharp)

I want to export gridview to pdf by using the itextsharp library. The problem is that some turkish characters such as İ,ı,Ş,ş etc... are missing in the pdf document. The code used to export the pdf is:
protected void LinkButtonPdf_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=FileName.pdf");
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
GridView1.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
StringReader reader = new StringReader(textConvert(stringWrite.ToString()));
Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);
HTMLWorker parser = new HTMLWorker(doc);
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, Response.OutputStream);
doc.Open();
parser.Parse(reader);
doc.Close();
}
public static string textConvert(string S)
{
if (S == null) { return null; }
try
{
System.Text.Encoding encFrom = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
System.Text.Encoding encTo = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
string str = S;
Byte[] b = encFrom.GetBytes(str);
return encTo.GetString(b);
}
catch { return null; }
}
Note: when I want to insert characters into the pdf document, the missing characters are shown in it. I insert the characters with this code:
BaseFont bffont = BaseFont.CreateFont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
Font fontozel = new Font(bffont, 12, Font.NORMAL, new Color(0, 0, 0));
doc.Add(new Paragraph("İİııŞŞşşĞĞğğ", fontozel));

Finaly I think I found the solution,I changed itextsharp source code a little in order to show turkish characters.(turkish character code is cp1254)
I add "public const string CP1254 = "Cp1254";" to [BaseFont.cs] in the source code.
After that I modify the [FactoryProperties.cs].I changed like this;
public Font GetFont(ChainedProperties props)
{
I don't write the whole code.I changed only code below;
------------Default itextsharp code------------------------------------------------------
if (encoding == null)
encoding = BaseFont.WINANSI;
return fontImp.GetFont(face, encoding, true, size, style, color);
-------------modified code--------------------------------------------
encoding = BaseFont.CP1254;
return fontImp.GetFont("C:\\WINDOWS\\Fonts\\arial.ttf", encoding, true, size, style, color);
}
.After I compile new dll ,and missing characters are shown.

No need to change the source code.
Try this:
iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont STF_Helvetica_Turkish = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont("Helvetica","Cp1254", iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
iTextSharp.text.Font fontNormal = new iTextSharp.text.Font(STF_Helvetica_Turkish, 12, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);

thank you very much all who posted the samples..
i use the below solution from codeproject , and there was the turkish char set problems due to font..
If you use htmlworker you should register font and pass to htmlworker
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/260470/PDF-reporting-using-ASP-NET-MVC3
StyleSheet styles = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet();
styles.LoadTagStyle("h3", "size", "5");
styles.LoadTagStyle("td", "size", ".6");
FontFactory.Register("c:\\windows\\fonts\\arial.ttf", "Garamond"); // just give a path of arial.ttf
styles.LoadTagStyle("body", "face", "Garamond");
styles.LoadTagStyle("body", "encoding", "Identity-H");
styles.LoadTagStyle("body", "size", "12pt");
using (var htmlViewReader = new StringReader(htmlText))
{
using (var htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(pdfDocument, null, styles))
{
htmlWorker.Parse(htmlViewReader);
}
}

I am not familiar with the iTextSharp library; however, you seem to be converting the output of your gridview component to a string and reading from that string to construct your PDF document. You also have a strange conversion from UTF-8 to UTF-8 going on.
From what I can see (given that your GridView is outputting characters correctly) if you are outputting the characters to a string they would be represented as UTF-16 in memory. You probably need to pass this string directly into the PDF library (like how you pass the raw UTF-16 .NET string "İııŞŞşşĞĞğğ" as it is).

You can use:
iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont Vn_Helvetica = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont(#"C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf", "Identity-H", iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
iTextSharp.text.Font fontNormal = new iTextSharp.text.Font(Vn_Helvetica, 12, iTextSharp.text.Font.NORMAL);

For Turkish encoding
CultureInfo ci = new CultureInfo("tr-TR");
Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding(ci.TextInfo.ANSICodePage);
If you're outputting HTML, try different DOCTYPE tags at the top of the page.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
Note if using HTML you may need to HTMLEncode the characters.
Server.HTMLEncode()
HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode()

BaseFont bF = BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\\arial.ttf","windows-1254",true);
Font f = new Font(bF,12f,Font.NORMAL);
Chunk c = new Chunk();
c.Font = f;
c.Append("Turkish characters: ĞÜŞİÖÇ ğüşıöç");
document.Add(c);
In the first line, you may write these instead of "windows-1254". All works:
Cp1254
iso-8859-9
windows-1254

Don't change the source code of the iTextSharp. Define a new style:
var styles = new StyleSheet();
styles.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.BODY, HtmlTags.FONTFAMILY, "tahoma");
styles.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.BODY, HtmlTags.ENCODING, "Identity-H");
and then pass it to the HTMLWorker.ParseToList method.

i have finally find a soultution for this problem , by this you can print all turkish character.
String htmlText = html.ToString();
Document document = new Document();
string filePath = HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/Content/Pdf/");
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(filePath + "\\pdf-"+Name+".pdf", FileMode.Create));
document.Open();
iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker hw = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker(document);
FontFactory.Register(Path.Combine(_webHelper.MapPath("~/App_Data/Pdf/arial.ttf")), "Garamond"); // just give a path of arial.ttf
StyleSheet css = new StyleSheet();
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "face", "Garamond");
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "encoding", "Identity-H");
css.LoadTagStyle("body", "size", "12pt");
hw.SetStyleSheet(css);
hw.Parse(new StringReader(htmlText));

I strongly suggest not to change itextsharp source code in order to solve this problem. Have a look at my other comment on the subject: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24587745/1138663

I solved the problem. I can provide my the other solution type...
try
{
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont("c:\\windows\\fonts\\calibrib.ttf",
BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 25, 25, 30, 30);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs);
Font f = new Font(bf, 12f, Font.NORMAL);
// Open the document to enable you to write to the document
document.Open();
// Add a simple and wellknown phrase to the document
for (int x = 0; x != 100; x++)
{
document.Add(new Paragraph("Paragraph - This is a test! ÇçĞğİıÖöŞşÜü",f));
}
// Close the document
document.Close();
}
catch(Exception)
{
}