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I am using ITextSharp to convert a HTML page to PDF.

However, ITextSharp prints the CSS in the STYLE declaration straight out, ignores stylesheets even when added programatically and only listens to some inline styles (e.g. font-size and color but not background-color).

Is there something I am missing with ITextSharp, or is there a better (and free) way of doing this conversion?

Thanks in advance,

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HTML / CSS support in iText / iTextSharp is very basic. It's just not the right tool to convert html to pdf. Take a look at these solutions instead:

These render html to an image. Then you can insert them in your PDF with iTextSharp.

Otherwise you could try converting HTML -> XSL-FO -> PDF, but including CSS there is a whole other thing.

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Many thanks!! I'll check these out. – Matt Mitchell Feb 5 '09 at 13:14
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Have a look at WKHTMLTOPDF. It is open source, based on webkit and free.

We wrote a small tutorial here.

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Does this work for ASP.NET/IIS? – Khalil Dahab Feb 22 '10 at 12:18
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Is this by any chance programmable with c# ... I only see command line usages ?! – jalchr Mar 29 '10 at 22:37
This looks the most promising so far. – Matt Mitchell Apr 28 '10 at 16:11
There is a C bindings library, which should in theory be usable from C# using P/Invoke, but I've had no luck succeeding yet: github.com/bamccaig/WkHtmlToPdfDflat. I've also tried writing a plain C program (from Linux, even) to directly test the C bindings, but even that has failed: code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=614. – bamccaig May 17 '11 at 19:10
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Try PDF Duo .NET converter. You can apply for support if you need a special feature.

http://www.duodimension.com/html%5Fpdf%5Fasp.net/downloads/html%5Fpdf%5Fnet.zip

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