.NET Wrapper for WkHtmlToPdf DLL, library that uses Webkit engine to convert HTML pages to PDF.
A: By default, all backgrounds will be omitted from the document (note: this is similar to how Google Chrome operates when printing to PDF.)
You can override this setting by calling SetPrintBackground(true) on the ObjectConfig supplied with the HTML document to the Convert() method of the converter.
A: No. The latest version of the wkhtmltopdf DLL is included in the project (and in NuGet package) along with its dependencies, and those are all copied into the build output directory when the project is built.
A: To build the library from the code, you'll need Visual Studio 2010 with SP1 or Visual Studio 2012 with NuGet package manager installed. Then, after checking out the code and opening it in VS you should restore NuGet packages: right click on the solution, select Manage NuGet Packages... and in the opened window you should see notification that some packages are missing with the button that restores them.
Alternatively you can run ``` nuget install packages.config
And then you should be able to build everything with **Build** > **Build Solution** menu item.
Usage
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Pechkin is both easy to use....
```csharp
String html = "<html><body><h1>Hello world!</h1></body></html>";
byte[] pdfBuf = Factory.Create(new GlobalConfig()).Convert(html);
...and functional:
// create global configuration object
GlobalConfig gc = new GlobalConfig();
// set it up using fluent notation
gc.SetMargins(new Margins(300, 100, 150, 100))
.SetDocumentTitle("Test document")
.SetPaperSize(PaperKind.Letter);
//... etc
// create converter
IPechkin pechkin = Factory.Create(gc);
// subscribe to events
pechkin.Begin += OnBegin;
pechkin.Error += OnError;
pechkin.Warning += OnWarning;
pechkin.PhaseChanged += OnPhase;
pechkin.ProgressChanged += OnProgress;
pechkin.Finished += OnFinished;
// create document configuration object
ObjectConfig oc = new ObjectConfig();
// and set it up using fluent notation too
oc.SetCreateExternalLinks(false)
.SetFallbackEncoding(Encoding.ASCII)
.SetLoadImages(false)
.SetPageUri("http://google.com");
//... etc
// convert document
byte[] pdfBuf = pechkin.Convert(oc);Copyright 2012 by Slava Kolobaev. This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/