Asp – HTML document to PDF

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I've got an ASP.NET web page that is a dynamically generated report. For business reasons, this exact report needs to be produced as a PDF. What's the best way to do this? Setting the selected printer to Adobe PDF is not an option.

Learn to programmatically create PDFs from scratch? Is there a way to render it in some browser control, then save the ouput?

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wkhtmltopdf - I compiled it in Windows and it works great. It uses WebKit (Safari, Chrome, etc.) to render an HTML page into PDF, and it is free!

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Html – Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML

This is quick, easy, to the point and doesn't require any third-party script:

<embed src="http://example.com/the.pdf" width="500" height="375" 
 type="application/pdf">

UPDATE (2/3/2021)

Adobe now offers it's own PDF Embed API.

https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/pdf-embed.html

UPDATE (1/2018):

The Chrome browser on Android no longer supports PDF embeds. You can get around this by using the Google Drive PDF viewer

<embed src="https://drive.google.com/viewerng/
viewer?embedded=true&url=http://example.com/the.pdf" width="500" height="375">

Proper MIME media type for PDF files

The standard Media Type (formerly known as MIME types) is application/pdf. The assignment is defined in RFC 3778, The application/pdf Media Type, referenced from the Media Types registry.

Media Types are controlled by a standards body, The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This is the same organization that manages the root name servers and the IP address space.

The use of x-pdf predates the standardization of the Media Type for PDF. Media Types in the x- namespace are considered experimental, just as those in the vnd. namespace are considered vendor-specific. x-pdf might be used for compatibility with old software.

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Proper MIME media type for PDF files

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