HTML to PDF and Word docs from .NET

[GreenerGrass]

Anyone know of a reliable conversion tool/library you can use in a .NET web app that take chunks of HTML and converts them into both PDF and Word documents?
I can programmatically add headers and footers to the HTML if required to make a complete document.
Looked at a couple that I googled but they just didn't work very well, producing garbage in the PDF.

[quickweb]

Look for a .Net library called iTextSharp. This lets you create PDFs from code, and has some conversion facilities. There *are* issues, but it's free and works for most things. I am using it on this project: www.thefoodcalculator.com (go into the demo bit and then run the report) , as well as a number of intranet based apps.

[Monster Munch]

I've used a few components from Gnostice in the past:

http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.a..._PDF_Documents

They work with no problems.

[Monster Munch]

Look for a .Net library called iTextSharp. This lets you create PDFs from code, and has some conversion facilities. There *are* issues, but it's free and works for most things. I am using it on this project: www.thefoodcalculator.com (go into the demo bit and then run the report) , as well as a number of intranet based apps.

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[thunderlizard]

For the Word part, I'd be inclined to use interop and the Word VBA object model. (I've done a similar thing with Excel). You end up with a few lines of horrible code but you get the benefit of a "pull" model.

[quickweb]

Mmmm

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[GreenerGrass]

Thanks all, will try the above.

[jim2406]

http://www.html-to-pdf.net/Features.aspx is great for HTML to PDF, it 'just works' and handles external CSS etc. 5 lines of code to get a URL into a stream with a PDF in it.

if you want to do HTML to word, just write out the HTML to the browser with a document type of application/msword in the header, and it will open as if a word document.

Hope this helps.

Jim