using iTextSharp.text;

using iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser;

using iTextSharp.text.pdf;

public class PdfController : Controller

{

public void DownloadPDF()

{

string HTMLContent = "Hello <b>World</b>";

Response.Clear();

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=" + "PDFfile.pdf");

Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);

Response.BinaryWrite(GetPDF(HTMLContent));

Response.End();

}

public byte[] GetPDF(string pHTML)

{

byte[] bPDF = null;

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

TextReader txtReader = new StringReader(pHTML);

// 1: create object of a itextsharp document class

Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 25, 25, 25, 25);

// 2: we create a itextsharp pdfwriter that listens to the document and directs a XML-stream to a file

PdfWriter oPdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms);

// 3: we create a worker parse the document

HTMLWorker htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(doc);

// 4: we open document and start the worker on the document

doc.Open();

htmlWorker.StartDocument();

// 5: parse the html into the document

htmlWorker.Parse(txtReader);

// 6: close the document and the worker

htmlWorker.EndDocument();

htmlWorker.Close();

doc.Close();

bPDF = ms.ToArray();

return bPDF;

}

}