I am trying to create reports in my asp.net MVC3 application after a lot of search I found many blog posts talks about ITextSharp
to convert my Html/Razor
to Pdf
I am trying to parse razor view to get PDf as follows
public void Render(ViewContext viewContext, TextWriter writer)
{
var doc = new Document();
// associate output with response stream
var pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, viewContext.HttpContext.Response.OutputStream);
pdfWriter.CloseStream = false;
viewContext.HttpContext.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
viewContext.HttpContext.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
// generate view into string
var sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
TextWriter tw = new System.IO.StringWriter(sb);
_result.View.Render(viewContext, tw);
var resultCache = sb.ToString();
//Path to our font
string arialuniTff = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Fonts), "ARIALUNI.TTF");
//Register the font with iTextSharp
iTextSharp.text.FontFactory.Register(arialuniTff);
//Create a new stylesheet
iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet ST = new iTextSharp.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet();
//Set the default body font to our registered font's internal name
ST.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.BODY, HtmlTags.FACE, "Arial Unicode MS");
//Set the default encoding to support Unicode characters
ST.LoadTagStyle(HtmlTags.BODY, HtmlTags.ENCODING, BaseFont.IDENTITY_H);
//Parse our HTML using the stylesheet created above
List<IElement> list = HTMLWorker.ParseToList(new StringReader(resultCache), ST);
doc.Open();
//Loop through each element, don't bother wrapping in P tags
foreach (var element in list)
{
doc.Add(element);
}
doc.Close();
pdfWriter.Close();
}
the result of that code is
which is not correct, the arabic word should be "محمد". so what I need is to set document direction to be from right to left
EDIT Thanks to @Romulus
I made a little changes to his code i just replaced adding element to PdfPCell
to looping on my Html and set some attributes
//Loop through each element, don't bother wrapping in P tags
foreach (var element in list)
{
//Create a cell and add text to it
//PdfPCell text = new PdfPCell(new Phrase(element.ToString(), f));
//Ensure that wrapping is on, otherwise Right to Left text will not display
//text.NoWrap = false;
//Add the cell to the table
//table.AddCell(text);
if (element is iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable)
{
table = (iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfPTable)element;
table.DefaultCell.NoWrap = false;
table.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL;
foreach (PdfPRow row in table.Rows)
{
foreach (PdfPCell cell in row.GetCells())
{
cell.RunDirection = PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL;
cell.NoWrap = false;
}
}
}
}
That's working for me now well Thanks :)