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Awesomium incorrectly prints pages to PDF

Why Awesomium incorectly prints web sites to PDF? This is my code:

   private void _browser_LoadingFrameComplete(object sender, Awesomium.Core.FrameEventArgs e)
    {
        _Status.Content = "Printing to pdf...";
        WebControl tempControl = sender as WebControl;
        tempControl.WebSession.Views.First().PrintToFile("E:\\", PrintConfig.Default);
        _Status.Content = "Done.";
    }

Result of following code is under that link (http://google.pl): Link to dropbox

As You can see a lot of elements looks like are partially loaded. How to resolve this? Is someone experiencing similar issue?

Solution

  • You have to check if the frame that has just been loaded is actually the page, and not any other thing.

    To do that, make an If check for e.IsMainFrame=true, then you can happily print.

    Beware that some pages could load things via AJAX, so if you rely on the LoadingFrameComplete event you could get spinning wheels instead of content.