aruss / RazorPDF

Simple project for making PDFs from Razor views in ASP.NET MVC

RazorPDF

RazorPDF is a simple project that makes it a breeze to create PDFs using the Razor view engine. Since Razor is really a template syntax, it can do lot more than just generate HTML. RazorPDF uses it to generate iText XML. Then using the iTextSharp library, we turn that iText XML into a PDF to return. The end result is a easy to use, clean method for generating PDFs.

##Usage

Simple usage: Just return the PdfResult. In this case you will need a view file like usual.

public ActionResult PdfView()
{
	return this.Pdf(new PdfModel
	{
		Field1 = "Foo",
		Field2 = "Bar"
	});
}

More complex: Get razor template from file or from your CMS

const string razor = "<h1>PDF </h1><p>Hello @Model.Field1</p><p>@Model.Field2</p>";

Parse PDF from Razor template

var ms = (new RazorPDF.PdfParser()).ParseRazor(razor, model);

Then you can save the memory stream to file

var content = ms.ToArray();
using (var fs = System.IO.File.OpenWrite(HttpContext.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/foobar.pdf")))
{
	fs.Write(content, 0, (int)content.Length);
}

Return memory stream as PdfView

return this.Pdf(ms.ToArray()); 

And if you already have PDF files on file system.

return this.PdfFile(HttpContext.Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/foobar.pdf"));