How to use wkHtmltoPdf to generate PDf files from statcic html files in C#

Question

Can anyone suggest how to use wkhtmltopdf in C# Console application to generate PDF files from static html files?

wkhtmltopdf - http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

I have tried downloading the ibwkhtmltox-0.11.0_rc1 Windows Static Library (i368) but cant include its dll into my c# console app.

Any code samples will be helpful

Answer 1

If you can I would suggest using the exe - I think it's simpler.

For an example, check out the Derp class in another answer of mine regarding how to run the wkhtmltopdf exe from C#. Or try something like the untested code below (your true code will be more complicated, this is just a demo/POC). Just replace google.com with the HTML page you want - you can use local files as well.

var pi = new ProcessStartInfo(@"c:\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe");
pi.CreateNoWindow = true;
pi.UseShellExecute = false;
pi.WorkingDirectory = @"c:\wkhtmltopdf\";
pi.Arguments = "http://www.google.com gogl.pdf";

using (var process = Process.Start(pi))
{
    process.WaitForExit(99999);
    Debug.WriteLine(process.ExitCode);
}

(answer repeated from https://stackoverflow.com/a/11992062/694325)