TIP for Creating PDF Files from HTML / Image

[microtronx 38]

Hi folks,

 

after searching a lot for different possibilities, Alexander remembered me that we can use his components (https://delphihtmlcomponents.com/) to create very simply pdf files on the fly.

If you search for a component to create PDF files without much code from HTML (incl. using images files) use this code:

thtdocument.HTMLtoPDFFile(ahtmlstring:string; aPDFfile:string);

Thanks to @Alexander Sviridenkov for his wonderfull components.

 

[Der schöne Günther 316]

WebView2 (used by TEdgeBrowser) can directly print to PDF, just saying.

[microtronx 38]

43 minutes ago, Der schöne Günther said:

WebView2 (used by TEdgeBrowser) can directly print to PDF, just saying.

Yes, but with thtdocument you do not have any dependencies to other libs/dll's ...

[Alexander Sviridenkov 356]

On 5/10/2022 at 8:49 AM, Der schöne Günther said:

WebView2 (used by TEdgeBrowser) can directly print to PDF, just saying.

Browsers do not support page headers and footers, different page sizes/orientation, printing page number and count of pages, repeated table headers, etc.

[Der schöne Günther 316]

Not sure where you got that from, browsers can do that perfectly fine.

 

Here is an example with TEdgeBrowser and no additional libraries in Delphi:

 

 

Printed, for example, in landscape orientation:

[Alexander Sviridenkov 356]

Thanks, I didn't know Edge supports header/footer customization. Are header/footer embedded into page or passed separately? Does it support different headers/footers for different pages?