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TuesPechkin is a .NET Wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf library.

Supported usage

• It supports .NET 2.0+, 32 and 64-bit processes, and IIS-hosted applications.
• Azure Websites does not currently support the use of wkhtmltopdf.
• It is not tested with any operating systems besides Windows.
• It is available as a NuGet package for your convenience.
• It is built and tested around wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.
• Even if you use the IIS-compatible method documented below, you may only use one converter/toolset instance per application pool/process. A workaround is being researched for a future version.

Example

1. Create a document with options of your choosing.

var document = new HtmlToPdfDocument
{
    GlobalSettings =
    {
        ProduceOutline = true,
        DocumentTitle = "Pretty Websites",
        PaperSize = PaperKind.A4, // Implicit conversion to PechkinPaperSize
        Margins =
        {
            All = 1.375,
            Unit = Unit.Centimeters
        }
    },
    Objects = {
        new ObjectSettings { HtmlText = "<h1>Pretty Websites</h1><p>This might take a bit to convert!</p>" },
        new ObjectSettings { PageUrl = "www.google.com" },
        new ObjectSettings { PageUrl = "www.microsoft.com" },
        new ObjectSettings { PageUrl = "www.github.com" }
    }
};

2. Create a converter for an IIS-hosted application

IConverter converter =
    new ThreadSafeConverter(
        new RemotingToolset<PdfToolset>(
            new Win32EmbeddedDeployment(
                new TempFolderDeployment())));

// Keep the converter somewhere static, or as a singleton instance!
// Do NOT run the above code more than once in the application lifecycle!

byte[] result = converter.Convert(document);