How do I display a PDF using PdfSharp in ASP.Net MVC?

Question

We\'re making an ASP.Net MVC app that needs to be able to generate a PDF and display it to the screen or save it somewhere easy for the user to access. We\'re using PdfSharp

Answer 1

Using Yarx's suggestion and PDFsharp Team's tutorial, this is the code we ended up with:

Controller:

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult GenerateReport(ReportPdfInput input)
{
    using (MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream())
    {
        var manager = new ReportPdfManagerFactory().GetReportPdfManager();
        var document = manager.GenerateReport(input);
        document.Save(stream, false);
        return File(stream.ToArray(), "application/pdf");
    }
}

ReportPdfManager:

public PdfDocument GenerateReport(ReportPdfInput input)
{
    var document = CreateDocument(input);
    var renderer = new PdfDocumentRenderer(true,
        PdfSharp.Pdf.PdfFontEmbedding.Always);
    renderer.Document = document;
    renderer.RenderDocument();

    return renderer.PdfDocument;
}

private Document CreateDocument(ReportPdfInput input)
{
    //Creates a Document and puts content into it
}