However if you try a Word Document with pictures or links you will notice they're missing or broken. If you run the project you will see the HTML looks almost exactly like the content in the Word document: Make sure the test.docx is a valid word document with some text otherwise you might get an error: Var writer = File.CreateText('test.html') XElement html = HtmlConverter.ConvertToHtml(document, settings) HtmlConverterSettings settings = new HtmlConverterSettings() Var source = document = WordprocessingDocument.Open(source) Run the console project: static void Main(string args) Add a Word Document to the project (eg test.docx) and set this docx files properties Copy To Output = If Newer Net Core project and build it (just the OpenXMLPowerTools.Core and the - ignore the other project). Let's put this altogether, download the OpenXMLSDK-PowerTools. There are a few libraries to convert HTML to PDF, for example DinkToPdf is a cross-platform wrapper around the Webkit HTML to PDF library libwkhtmltox. Now that we can extract document content to HTML we need to convert it to PDF. The Pull Request is 'about to be accepted', you can get it from here: Net Core version of the OpenXMLSDK- PowerTools that supports transforming Docx to HTML. One of the popular ways is reading the Docx into HTML and exporting that to PDF.

The main problem is getting the Word Document Content transformed to PDF. Since it doesn't look like you want to pay for one and you can't legally use a third party service we have little choice except to roll our own. docx format.īad news at the moment there isn't a lot of choice for PDF generation libraries on. Net Standard so it looks like you're in luck with the. Good news is the Open XML SDK recently added support for. This was such a pain, no wonder all the third party solutions are charging $500 per developer.

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