Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter 5.4

Winnovative HTML to PDF Converter 5.4 is a useful tool designed for .NET 2.0 which can be linked into any .NET application, either ASP.NET web sites or Windows Forms applications, to add html to pdf conversion capabilities to your application.

You can use the HTML to PDF Converter for .NET as a general purpose tool for converting web pages and HTML code to PDF and images or you can use it as part of your .NET Reporting Toolkit to easily create PDF reports directly from ASP.NET pages and to benefit from the great power of standard ASP.NET databound server controls.

The converter allows you to control the PDF page size and orientation, page breaks, add HTML and page numbers in the header and footer, convert the internal and external links from HTML to internal or external links in PDF, automatically create bookmarks.

The integration is extremely easy and no additional installation is necessary in order to get started. The converter is delivered as a single strong named assembly for .NET 2.0 that you can reference directly in your application and that you can deploy on the server by simple copy. The exact layout preservation of the source HTML page in the pdf document resulted after conversion is one of the major goals of the converter.

Major Features:

1. Easy integration, no installation or setup is necessary on the server
2. Delivered as a single strong named .NET 2.0 assembly (can be installed in GAC)
3. Can be deployed on the server by simple copy (xcopy deployment support)
4. Can be used from ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, Web Service or Console applications
5. The same assembly can be used both on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows servers
6. Convert web pages, HTML strings and streams to PDF files or PDF streams in memory
7. Convert a web pages, HTML strings and streams to various image formats
8. Convert multiple web pages, HTML strings and streams into the same PDF document
9. Generate PDF documents compliant with PDF/A, PDF/X and PDF/SiqQ standards
10. Support for complex script and right to left Asian languages (Arabic, Hebrew, CJK, etc)
11. Set PDF page size to a standard size (A4, A3, etc) or to a custom size
12. Set PDF page orientation (portrait or landscape)
13. Set PDF document margins
14. Set PDF streams compression level to reduce the PDF document size
15. Set JPEG compression level for images to reduce the PDF document size
16. Add HTML, text, images and page numbers in header and footer
17. Show/hide header and footer on odd/even pages
18. Control of the page breaks using CSS styles
19. Force page breaks with page-break-before:always and page-break-after:always CSS styles
20. 'Keep Together' feature with page-break-inside:avoid CSS style
21. Option to avoid cutting off texts between PDF pages
22. Option to avoid cutting off images between PDF pages
23. Options to shrink or stretch the HTML content to fit the PDF document page width
24. Option to automatically resize the PDF page to a custom size to fit the HTML content
25. Convert HTTP links from HTML to HTTP links in PDF pointing to external resources
26. Convert internal links from HTML to internal links in PDF to easily create tables of contents
27. Automatically generated bookmarks for a specified list of HTML tags
28. Get the position in PDF, by HTML ID or by HTML tag name, of any HTML element
29. Embed true type fonts into the rendered PDF
30. Append or prepend external PDF files to the conversion result
31. Password protect, allow/deny printing, editing, copying of the generated PDF document
32. Set the PDF document properties like author, title, subject, keywords, creation date, etc.
33. Enable/disable JavaScript in rendered web page during conversion
34. Enable/disable ActiveX controls in rendered web page during conversion
35. Server authentication support (e.g IIS Integrated Windows Authentication)
36. C# and VB.NET full samples for ASP.NET and Windows Forms
37. Free Win32 HTML to PDF Converter Application built on top of the library

Enhancements:

• Import bookmarks from the external PDF documents appended and prepended to the conversion result
• Added the OpenAction property to execute a JavaScript code or to automatically go to a PDF page when the the PDF document is displayed
• Added the FitHeight property to make the HTML content fit the PDF page height
• Added the HttpRequestHeaders property to send HTTP headers (e.g. cookies) to the web server when the web page is requested by converter
• Added the TransparencyEnabled property to enable or disable all the transparencies from the generated PDF document
• Added the DrawBackground property for HtmlToPdfArea and HtmlToPdfElement to make visible the PDF objects behind them
• Added a demo application for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)
• Added a demo application for how to alternate the header and footer content on odd and even pages of the generated PDF document