Devexpress RichEditDocumentServer HtmlText property not properly formatting CSS (width, padding, margin) .NET Framework 4.7.2

Question

Having an issue where I'm using DevExpress RichEditDocument server and the .HtmlText property being used to convert HTML to a PDF document. The base html and some styles get applied, however styles like width, padding, margins are not being applied. I have tried putting the styles in the HTML tags and using a separate style tag with classes as well.

Are there adjustments I can make to the DevExpress page itself for margins so the HTML will start at the edge of the PDF?

welcome to stackoverflow, what is your project type, WinForm or WPF ? — Ali Bigdeli, Aug 03 '20 at 14:53
@AliBigdeli API via WebAPI that returns the generated PDF as HTTPResponseMessage and within that the pdf is the content a byte array — jhughes, Aug 03 '20 at 15:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 25 '22 at 09:56

To setup page margins you can use Section.Margins property of a document:

document.Sections[0].Margins.Top = 0;
document.Sections[0].Margins.Bottom = 0;
document.Sections[0].Margins.Left = 0.2f;
document.Sections[0].Margins.Right = 0.2f;

Full example is shown on DevExpress documentation page: https://docs.devexpress.com/OfficeFileAPI/402993/word-processing-document-api/html-import-and-export?p=netstandard#example-1-convert-html-to-pdf

PS: HTML support in RichEditDocumentServer appears to be very limited. All supported/unsupported tags with attributes are listed here: https://docs.devexpress.com/OfficeFileAPI/15684/word-processing-document-api/html-import-and-export/html-support-limitations

Devexpress RichEditDocumentServer HtmlText property not properly formatting CSS (width, padding, margin) .NET Framework 4.7.2

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