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Sweety
Sweety

Reputation: 305

export gridview data to pdf

its throwing error like document has no pages.

i have written code like this.

protected void Button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
    Response.AddHeader("content-disposition","attachment;filename=GridViewExport.pdf");
    Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
    StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
    HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
    GridView1.AllowPaging = false;
    GridView1.DataBind();
    GridView1.RenderControl(hw);
    StringReader sr = new StringReader(sw.ToString());
    Document pdfDoc = new Document(PageSize.A4, 10f, 10f, 10f, 0f);
    HTMLWorker htmlparser = new HTMLWorker(pdfDoc);
    PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream);
    pdfDoc.Open();
    htmlparser.Parse(sr);
    pdfDoc.Close();
    Response.Write(pdfDoc);
    Response.End();  
}

can any1 help me on this

Upvotes: 0

Views: 809

Answers (1)

Oded
Oded

Reputation: 499312

I suggest reading the documentation of the library you are using.

The error suggests that you need to add a page to the new document before you try and add content to it.

In some of the PDF libraries you add a page and then need to set it as the current page before adding content.

Upvotes: 1

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