Generate a pdf from view Mvc 3

Question

Today I received a task to generate a pdf from view .... as I am beginner in programming ... someone would help me with this task .. passing some tips .. where to start researching. Pos'm having difficulty doing this task. I tried to use an example in this link http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/260470/PDF-reporting-using-ASP-NET-MVC3 but it always throws an error in this part of the code

public byte[] Render(string htmlText, string pageTitle)
{
    byte[] renderedBuffer;

    using (var outputMemoryStream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        using (var pdfDocument = new Document(PageSize.A4, HorizontalMargin, HorizontalMargin, VerticalMargin, VerticalMargin))
        {
            PdfWriter pdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDocument, outputMemoryStream);
            pdfWriter.CloseStream = false;
            pdfWriter.PageEvent = new PrintHeaderFooter { Title = pageTitle };
            pdfDocument.Open();
            using (var htmlViewReader = new StringReader(htmlText))
            {
                using (var htmlWorker = new HTMLWorker(pdfDocument))
                {
                    htmlWorker.Parse(htmlViewReader);// erro here 
                }
            }
        }

        renderedBuffer = new byte[outputMemoryStream.Position];
        outputMemoryStream.Position = 0;
        outputMemoryStream.Read(renderedBuffer, 0, renderedBuffer.Length);
    }

    return renderedBuffer;
}

What does that error message at that line ? Use `Try-Catch` to log your errors. — Karthik Chintala, Feb 05 '13 at 14:11
What happens is the error of Object reference not set to an instance of an object. in line with the comment — Fábio Oliveira, Feb 05 '13 at 14:15
take a look at this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6168846/open-pdf-result-in-browser-tab-with-mvc-3 — Dave Alperovich, Feb 05 '13 at 14:39
possible duplicate of [Asp.Net MVC how to get view to generate PDF](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/779430/asp-net-mvc-how-to-get-view-to-generate-pdf) — Steve, Mar 02 '13 at 17:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 31 '16 at 15:59

It is not answer to your question per se, but we are mostly using NReco.PDF

And example of the code to generate PDF from HTML content would be:

var htmlContent = String.Format("<body>Hello world: {0}</body>", 
    DateTime.Now);
var htmlToPdf = new NReco.PdfGenerator.HtmlToPdfConverter();  
var pdfBytes = htmlToPdf.GeneratePdf(htmlContent);

So only thing missing in this example is getting output of you MVC controller as HTML.

Generate a pdf from view Mvc 3

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