pdfHTML – convert HTML into rich, smart PDF documents

Below is the original web page we’re using to test iText 7 pdfHTML:

Here is the result of iText 7’s pdfHTML conversion, versus a competitor’s efforts:

With iText 7’s pdfHTML conversion, the table formatting was preserved, and all the images and data were perfectly aligned as they should appear. 

But that's not all. pdfHTML also provides a convenient and simple API (application programming interface) for Java and .NET (C#) which allows you to convert HTML files straight to PDF files, or to a list of iText elements. This gives you full control over how to parse and insert the HTML elements. By re-using the structural information from HTML to easily create PDF/A, PDF/UA, or Tagged PDFs, pdfHTML provides the engine to convert HTML to PDF, and the results are well-formatted, well-structured PDF documents. There is no need to know the technical details of the PDF format, pdfHTML utilizes semantic and structural information already present in the HTML.

*Under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, PDF/UA is a requirement for all PDF files.

The following code demonstrates how to generate a PDF from an HTML source:

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public static void main() throws IOException {
        // IO
        File htmlSource = new File("input.html");
        File pdfDest = new File("output.pdf");
         // pdfHTML specific code
        ConverterProperties converterProperties = new ConverterProperties();
        HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(new FileInputStream(htmlSource), 
       new FileOutputStream(pdfDest), converterProperties);
    }

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static void Main(string[] args)
  {
    using (FileStream htmlSource = File.Open("input.html", FileMode.Open))
    using (FileStream pdfDest = File.Open("output.pdf", FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
    {
        ConverterProperties converterProperties = new ConverterProperties();
        HtmlConverter.ConvertToPdf(htmlSource, pdfDest, converterProperties);
    }
  }