Generating Web Page to PDF

Background:

Easiest, simplest, fastest and of course free way to generate PDF or images for web pages:

– Tool is named as “wkhtmltopdf” and “wkhtmltoimage”
– Both are in exe format.
– Written in C++ and also its source is open and licensed under open source.
– Because it is an exe, we can use this tool in both windows and web applications. And it is in C++  so it can be used for windows platform as well as in Linux based systems.

In Details:

I will be explaining how to use it in web applications to generate PDF and push that PDF to client. Rest can be taken care by considering this as an example.
You can download the exe from  https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list. And trust me this is really cool kit as it provides a lot of flexibility to hide or extend the content of the page in nearly every manner.