Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Pdf 8.0.0.3

Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Pdf

This PDF library creates a PDF from HTML with header and footer if provided. The Pdf library provides two versions of PDF generation.

• Version 1 (Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Pdf.V1) uses wkhtmltopdf
• Version 2 (Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Pdf.V2) uses pdf-lib

Setup library in an ASP.NET project

The IBuddyServiceCollection of the Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Abstractions package offers the AddBuddy method, which provides several extensions to add the PDF services. The library has two versions of the PDF service in following namespaces:

• using Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Pdf.V1;
• using Adliance.AspNetCore.Buddy.Pdf.V2;

The methods are the same in every namespace, so be aware of using the correct using statements when adding the PDF service with the AddPdf(configuration) method.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
  //...
  services.AddBuddy()
    .AddPdf(Configuration.GetSection("Pdf"))    
  //...
 }

Configuration (appsettings.json)

Add a section in the configuration of your project and point to the used PDF service endpoint.

{
  "Pdf": {
    "ServerUrl": "https://url-to-pdf.service"
  }
}

Health check

The library also offers an extension to the IHealthChecksBuilder to add a health check to the used PDF service.

services.AddHealthChecks()
  .AddPdfCheck();

Usage of library

Generate a PDF

This code sample shows the usage of the PDF generator. Just call the HtmlToPdf method with the HTML string and the PDF options.

IPdfer _pdfer = new AdliancePdfer(new DefaultPdferConfiguration());
byte[] bytes = await _pdfer.HtmlToPdf("This is <b>my</b> <u>HTML</u> code.", new PdfOptions());

PDF Options

Version 2

Useful information

Page numbers

To have page numbers, e.g in the footer of the PDF, there are two CSS classes. If placed on a span element, the content of the element is substituted with the appropriate value.

• current-page: Specifies the current page number.
• total-pages: The total number of pages, which will be generated.

A HTML snippet could look like this:

<span class="current-page"></span> / <span class="total-pages"></span>