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How can I use the HTML to PDF converter library from .NET 1.1 applications or from PHP applications?

April 26, 2017applications converter html library PDF php

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How can I use the HTML to PDF converter library from .NET 1.1 applications or from PHP applications?

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The HTML to PDF converter library is a .NET 2.0 or 4.0 library and it is not working with .NET 1.1 directly. The workaround for this is to download and install our HTML to PDF Converter Bridge Web Service which exposes a simple method to return the rendered PDF document bytes from a specified URL. The web service internally makes calls to the converter library. The downloaded archive also contains a ASP.NET 1.1 and a ASP.NET 2.0 test web sites. The bridge web service must be installed on your server as any .NET 2.0 web service. Most of the Windows servers today have the .NET 2.0 already installed or you can download and install the .NET Framework 2.0 Redistributable package for free from Microsoft web site. To install our html to pdf converter web service on your server you have to create a virtual IIS folder named ConvertWebService for the ConvertWebService folder from the downloaded archive (the simplest way to do this is to right click on the folder and from the Properties page sele