I have an ASP.NET MVC4 application in which I'd like to export a html page to PDF-file, I use this code and it's works fine: code
This code converts a html page to online PDF, I'd like to download directly the file.
How can I change this code to obtain this result?
With a FileContentResult:
protected FileContentResult ViewPdf(string pageTitle, string viewName, object model)
{
// Render the view html to a string.
string htmlText = this.htmlViewRenderer.RenderViewToString(this, viewName, model);
// Let the html be rendered into a PDF document through iTextSharp.
byte[] buffer = standardPdfRenderer.Render(htmlText, pageTitle);
// Return the PDF as a binary stream to the client.
return File(buffer, "application/pdf","file.pdf");
}
Make it as an attachment and give it a filename when returning the result:
protected ActionResult ViewPdf(string pageTitle, string viewName, object model)
{
// Render the view html to a string.
string htmlText = this.htmlViewRenderer.RenderViewToString(this, viewName, model);
// Let the html be rendered into a PDF document through iTextSharp.
byte[] buffer = standardPdfRenderer.Render(htmlText, pageTitle);
// Return the PDF as a binary stream to the client.
return File(buffer, "application/pdf", "myfile.pdf");
}
What makes the file appear as attachment and popup the Save As dialog is the following line:
return File(buffer, "application/pdf", "myfile.pdf");
Use:
This is for VB.NET (C# below)
Public Function PDF() As FileResult
Return File("../PDFFile.pdf", "application/pdf")
End Function
In your action method. Where PDFFIle is your file name.
For C#
Public FileResult PDF(){
return File("../PDFFile.pdf", "application/pdf");
}
