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Converting HTML files to PDF [closed]

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Why are my PDF files saving as chrome HTML?

This is because Chrome is set to use it's integrated PDF viewer when files are downloaded by default. You will need to turn this off to make it go away.

How do I print HTML to PDF?

Most modern browsers (e.g., Chrome, Edge, and Firefox) now have the feature to print to a PDF instead of a printer. Press the shortcut key Ctrl + P to print the page, and then in the print window that appears, change the Destination to Save as PDF or choose Adobe PDF as the printer.


The Flying Saucer XHTML renderer project has support for outputting XHTML to PDF. Have a look at an example here.


Did you try WKHTMLTOPDF?

It's a simple shell utility, an open source implementation of WebKit. Both are free.

We've set a small tutorial here

EDIT( 2017 ):

If it was to build something today, I wouldn't go that route anymore.
But would use http://pdfkit.org/ instead.
Probably stripping it of all its nodejs dependencies, to run in the browser.


Check out iText; it is a pure Java PDF toolkit which has support for reading data from HTML. I used it recently in a project when I needed to pull content from our CMS and export as PDF files, and it was all rather straightforward. The support for CSS and style tags is pretty limited, but it does render tables without any problems (I never managed to set column width though).

Creating a PDF from HTML goes something like this:

Document doc = new Document(PageSize.A4);
PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, out);
doc.open();
HTMLWorker hw = new HTMLWorker(doc);
hw.parse(new StringReader(html));
doc.close();

If you have the funding, nothing beats Prince XML as this video shows