Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter for Mono

The client library for .NET Framework is compatible with any platform which supports .NET Framework 4.0 or above, including the platforms listed below:

• .NET Framework 4.8.1, 4.7.2, 4.6.1, 4.0 (and above)
• Windows platforms
• Azure, Azure App Service and Azure Functions
• Xamarin for iOS, macOS and Android, Mono
• Web, Console and Desktop applications

Winnovative Client Libraries

Winnovative HTML to PDF for Mono ZIP package contains the product binaries consisting in Winnovative Client Library for .NET Framework assembly, demo application with full C# code for Mono, the library documentation in CHM format.

Winnovative Server

Before starting to use the Winnovative HTML to PDF Client for .NET in your applications you first have to install the Winnovative Server. The server can be installed as Azure Cloud Service Worker Role, Azure Cloud Service Web Role, Azure Service Fabric Application, IIS ASP.NET Web Application or Windows Service.

Winnovative Server package contains the server files and detailed installation instructions for each platform.

After the Winnovative Server was installed, you are ready to use the Winnovative Client Library for .NET in your applications. You can quickly start with the demo applications from the Demo folder of this package or you can integrate the library in your own project.

To start with your own project, first add a reference to WinnovativeClient.dll library from the Bin folder of this package.

After the reference to library was added to your project you are now ready to start writing code to convert HTML to PDF in your .NET application

Copy the C# code lines from the section below to create a PDF document from a web page or from a HTML string and save the resulted PDF to a memory buffer for further processing or to a PDF file.

The server IP address is assigned during server installation and it can be omitted from HtmlToPdfConverter constructor if the server was installed on the localhost IP address 127.0.0.1 . There are also variants of the constructor accepting an URL instead of IP address if the server was installed as a web service in Azure or in IIS.

At the top of your C# source file add the using WinnovativeClient; statement to make available the Winnovative Client API for your .NET application.

// add this using statement at the top of your C# file
using WinnovativeClient;

To convert a HTML string or an URL to a PDF file you can use the C# code below.

// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
// change the serverIP value if the server was installed on a remote machine
string serverIP = "127.0.0.1";
HtmlToPdfConverter converter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(serverIP);

// convert the HTML string to a PDF file
converter.ConvertHtmlToFile("<b>Hello World</b> from Winnovative !", null, "HtmlToFile.pdf");

// convert HTML page from URL to a PDF file
string htmlPageURL = "http://www.winnovative-software.com";
converter.ConvertUrlToFile(htmlPageURL, "UrlToFile.pdf");

To convert a HTML string or an URL to a PDF document in a memory buffer and then save it to a file you can use the C# code below.

// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
// change the serverIP value if the server was installed on a remote machine
string serverIP = "127.0.0.1";
HtmlToPdfConverter converter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(serverIP);

// convert a HTML string to a memory buffer
byte[] htmlToPdfBuffer = converter.ConvertHtml("<b>Hello World</b> from Winnovative !", null);

// write the memory buffer to a PDF file
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("HtmlToMemory.pdf", htmlToPdfBuffer);

// convert an URL to a memory buffer
string htmlPageURL = "http://www.winnovative-software.com";
byte[] urlToPdfBuffer = converter.ConvertUrl(htmlPageURL);

// write the memory buffer to a PDF file
System.IO.File.WriteAllBytes("UrlToMemory.pdf", urlToPdfBuffer);