pdf in console application using asp controls

tarun janveja

i have a web application in dot net in which i have web form having user details and his photo and sign .i wanted to generate pdf for the same web form of 1000 user indidually using console application .as in webform i have used dot net controls how to use the same in console application and generate pdf .please help me

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Pusting8y ago
I don't believe that any of us have fully understood what you're asking, can you try to clarify this?
Can you tell us a bit more about your exact requirement?
I personally don't understand what is the relationship between the ASP.NET application and the Console application. Are you saying that your data, which is required for generating PDF, comes from your ASP.NET application?
Also, should your ASP.NET application call the Console application in order to generate PDF?
There is a way how you would be able to do that however, I don't understand why you want to have an external Console application and not just create a PDF file within your ASP.NET application itself.
For instance, you could use a GemBox.Document library in your ASP.NET application (or even in your Console application) and pass it a HTML form which has the user's photo and sign, you would load that HTML content into a DocumentModel class and save it as PDF file. See these examples:
https://www.gemboxsoftware.com/document/articles/c-sharp-convert-html-to-pdf
https://www.gemboxsoftware.com/document/articles/convert-aspx-to-pdf
Also, here is a small sample code loads HTML text and downloads PDF file to a current HTTP request:
string html = ...

DocumentModel document = new DocumentModel();
document.Content.LoadText(html, LoadOptions.HtmlDefault);
document.Save(this.Response, "Sample.pdf");
Last, note that you can recreate PDF file from scratch, without using HTML content.
For this take a look at this example:
https://www.gemboxsoftware.com/document/articles/c-sharp-create-pdf
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Hussam Barouqa8y ago
If I understood your requirement correctly, you're trying to generate PDF files but not in ASP.NET application. Instead, you want to do that in a console application, which means you don't have access to ASP.NET controls.
If that's the case, consider using a library like LEADTOOLS (https://www.leadtools.com/downloads?category=main) which has image and document conversion features available in .NET and you can use it either in WinForms or in console program. Depending on what source you are using to generate the PDF, there is more than one way to this using LEADTOOLS.
For example, the following code can be used to produce an image PDF:
RasterCodecs codecs = new RasterCodecs();
codecs.convert("input file", "output.pdf", RasterImageFormat.RasPdfJpeg411, 0, 0, 0, null);
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Srikant Maruwada8y ago
Hi Tarun

You cannot use asp.net controls in console applicatons. Just understand the difference when you say asp.net controls it generates/renders HTML controls. Html cannot be used with stand alone application or console application.

If you requirement is to generate the PDF, then the library which used to generate PDF can be used within console application.
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