wkhtmltopdf outputstream & download - diaglog

Question

is it possible to get a pdf stream created by wkhtmltopdf from any html file and popup a download dialog in IE/Firefox/Chrome etc.?

At the moment I get my outputstre

Answer 1

Is this still a problem?

I just created a new ASP.net website to test this on my computer after installing wkhtmltopdf 0.11.0 rc2 and it worked fine creating the PDF. My version was only slightly different;

In my CSHTML I had:

MemoryStream PDFStream = new MemoryStream();
MemoryStream PDF = Derp.GeneratePdf(PDFStream);
byte[] byteArray1 = PDF.ToArray();
PDF.Flush();
PDF.Close();
Response.BufferOutput = true;
Response.Clear();
Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=Test.pdf");
Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
Response.BinaryWrite(byteArray1);
Response.End();

My Derp class

public class Derp
{
    public static MemoryStream GeneratePdf(MemoryStream pdf)
    {
        using (StreamReader Html = new StreamReader(@"Z:\HTMLPage.htm"))
        {
            Process p;
            StreamWriter stdin;
            ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
            psi.FileName = @"C:\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe";
            psi.UseShellExecute = false;
            psi.CreateNoWindow = true;
            psi.RedirectStandardInput = true;
            psi.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
            psi.RedirectStandardError = true;
            psi.Arguments = "-q -n --disable-smart-shrinking " + " - -";
            p = Process.Start(psi);
            try
            {
                stdin = p.StandardInput;
                stdin.AutoFlush = true;
                stdin.Write(Html.ReadToEnd());
                stdin.Dispose();
                CopyStream(p.StandardOutput.BaseStream, pdf);
                p.StandardOutput.Close();
                pdf.Position = 0;
                p.WaitForExit(10000);
                return pdf;
            }
            catch
            {
                return null;
            }
            finally
            {
                p.Dispose();
            }
        }
    }

    public static void CopyStream(Stream input, Stream output)
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[32768];
        int read;
        while ((read = input.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
        {
            output.Write(buffer, 0, read);
        }
    }
}