How to convert Arabic HTML to PDF using C# and VB.NET

The HTML-to-PDF converter is a .NET library for converting webpages, SVG, MHTML, and HTML files to PDF using C#. It uses the popular rendering engine Blink (Google Chrome). It is reliable and accurate. The result preserves all graphics, images, text, fonts, and the layout of the original HTML document or webpage.

Using this library, you can convert HTML with Arabic text to PDF using C# and VB.NET.

Steps to preserve the Arabic text in HTML to PDF conversion programmatically:

1. Create a new C# Windows Forms application project.
   

   

2. Install the Syncfusion.HtmlToPdfConverter.WinForms NuGet package as reference to your .NET Framework application from NuGet.org.
   

   

3. To preserve the Arabic characters in HTML to PDF conversion, the input HTML should contain the charset. So, that the converter will preserve the Arabic characters in the HTML to PDF conversion. Refer to the following screenshot to set the charset in input HTML. The charset differ based on the characters used in the input HTML file.
   

   

4. Include the following namespaces in the Form1…cs file.

C#

using Syncfusion.HtmlConverter;
using Syncfusion.Pdf;
using System.IO;

VB.NET

Imports Syncfusion.HtmlConverter
Imports Syncfusion.Pdf
Imports System.IO

5. Use the following code example to preserve the Arabic text in HTML to PDF conversion.

C#

//Initialize HTML to PDF converter.
HtmlToPdfConverter htmlConverter = new HtmlToPdfConverter();
//Convert URL to PDF document. 
PdfDocument document = htmlConverter.Convert("input.html");          
//Save and close the PDF document.
document.Save("Output.pdf");
document.Close(true);
//This will open the PDF file so, the result will be seen in default PDF Viewer. 
Process.Start("Output.pdf");

VB.NET

'Initialize HTML to PDF converter.
Dim htmlConverter As HtmlToPdfConverter = New HtmlToPdfConverter()
'Convert URL to PDF document. 
Dim document As PdfDocument = htmlConverter.Convert("input.html")
'Save and close the PDF document.
document.Save("Output.pdf")
document.Close(True)
'This will open the PDF file so, the result will be seen in default PDF Viewer 
Process.Start("Output.pdf")

A complete working sample can be downloaded from the Convert-HTML-to-PDF.zip.
By executing the program, you will get the PDF document as follows.

Take a moment to peruse the documentation where you can find other options like converting HTML to PDF, URL to PDF, HTML string to PDF, etc.

Refer here to explore the HTML to PDF features in Syncfusion Essential® PDF.

An online sample link for converting HTML to PDF document.