How to use wkhtmltopdf.exe in ASP.net

c# asp.net pdf-generation wkhtmltopdf
David Murdoch picture David Murdoch · May 8, 2010 · Viewed 74.8k times · Source

After 10 hours and trying 4 other HTML to PDF tools I'm about ready to explode.

wkhtmltopdf sounds like an excellent solution...the problem is that I can't execute a process with enough permissions from asp.net so...

Process.Start("wkhtmltopdf.exe","http://www.google.com google.pdf");

starts but doesn't do anything.

Is there an easy way to either:

-a) allow asp.net to start processes (that can actually do something) or
-b) compile/wrap/whatever wkhtmltopdf.exe into somthing I can use from C# like this: WkHtmlToPdf.Save("http://www.google.com", "google.pdf");

Answer

Răzvan Flavius Panda picture Răzvan Flavius Panda · Apr 16, 2013

You could also use Pechkin

.NET Wrapper for WkHtmlToPdf DLL, library that uses Webkit engine to convert HTML pages to PDF.

Nuget packages:

Pechkin.Synchronized

Pechkin

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