Hide Print button and nav menu in PDF using Rotativa PDF generator in Asp MVC 5

Question

I want to convert the page content to PDF. So that I have installed nuget package rotativa and when I try to print a view It shows the entire page in PDF along with the print button. I don't want show the print button and navigation menu in my desired output PDF.

Answer 1

To achieve this I have created new view (Preview.cshtml) which contains the data which I need to export as PDF.

public ActionResult ExportCvPdf()
{
    string switches = string.Format("--disable-smart-shrinking --header-html {0} --footer-html {1}",
     Url.Action("Header", "Cotroller", new { area = "Areaname" }, "http"),
     Url.Action("Footer", "Cotroller", new { area = "Areaname" }, "http"));

    return new Rotativa.ViewAsPdf("Preview", data)
      {
        FileName = "Sample-" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMdd") + ".pdf",
        PageSize = Size.A4,
        PageMargins = new Margins(30, 15, 20, 15),
        CustomSwitches = switches
      };

}

public ActionResult Preview(ViewModel detail)
{
  return View(detail);
}