mesa-fab-approval/Fab2ApprovalSystem-Copy/PdfGenerator/PdfViewController.cs

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="PdfViewController.cs" company="SemanticArchitecture">
//   http://www.SemanticArchitecture.net pkalkie@gmail.com
// </copyright>
// <summary>
//   Extends the controller with functionality for rendering PDF views
// </summary>
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Fab2ApprovalSystem.PdfGenerator
{
    using System.Web.Mvc;
    using System.IO;

    /// <summary>
    /// Extends the controller with functionality for rendering PDF views
    /// </summary>
    public class PdfViewController : Controller
    {
        private readonly HtmlViewRenderer htmlViewRenderer;
        private readonly StandardPdfRenderer standardPdfRenderer;

        public PdfViewController()
        {
            this.htmlViewRenderer = new HtmlViewRenderer();
            this.standardPdfRenderer = new StandardPdfRenderer();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pageTitle"></param>
        /// <param name="viewName"></param>
        /// <param name="model"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        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 new BinaryContentResult(buffer, "application/pdf");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="fileName"></param>
        /// <param name="viewName"></param>
        /// <param name="model"></param>
        protected void SavePdf(string fileName, 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, "");

            using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create))
            {
                fs.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
            }
           
        }
    }
}