This article will let you know how to convert HTML files to PDF files On Web Servers With "VeryPDF HTML Converter Command Line" and "VeryPDFComRunCmd COM Component", you can convert HTML files to PDF files from ASP, PHP, C#, ASP.NET etc, program languages.
VeryPDF HTML Converter Command Line can be downloaded from this web page,
https://www.verypdf.com/app/html-converter/try-and-buy.html#cmd
https://www.verypdf.com/htmltools/htmltools.zip
after you download and unzip it to a folder, you can run following command lines to convert a web page to PDF file first,
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX test.htm _test1.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX https://www.verypdf.com _web1.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -html2pdf2 test.htm _test_html2pdf2.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -webkit test.htm _test_webkit.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -webkit https://www.verypdf.com _web_webkit.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -webkit https://www.verypdf.com/artprint/docprintsdk.htm _verypdf_webkit.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -webkit2 test.htm _test_webkit2.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -webkit2 -width 1080 -height 1080 https://www.verypdf.com _web_webkit2.pdf
htmltools.exe -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -webkit2 -width 1080 -height 1080 https://www.verypdf.com/artprint/docprintsdk.htm _verypdf_webkit2.pdf
VeryPDFComRunCmd COM Component can be downloaded from this web page,
http://www.verydoc.com/exeshell.html#VeryPDFComRunCmd_COM_Component
https://www.verypdf.com/dl2.php/VeryPDFComRunCmd.zip
after you download and unzip it to a folder, you can run install.vbs to install "VeryPDFComRunCmd.exe" into your system, install.vbs file contains following line,
VeryPDFComRunCmd.exe /regserver
You can also run this command line in CMD window with administrator privilege to register "VeryPDFComRunCmd.exe" into your system.
Now, you can call "VeryPDFCom.RunCmd" from your ASP code to convert from HTML file to PDF file, you can use a simple code at like below,
<%
set VeryPDFCom = Server.CreateObject("VeryPDFCom.RunCmd")
dim nRetVal, bRet
strRet = VeryPDFCom.RunCmd2("D:\VeryPDF\htmltools.exe -webkit https://www.verypdf.com D:\out.pdf", 5)
Response.Write strRet & vbCrlf
%>
You may encounter "Permission denied" error message, like below,
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Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A0046)
Permission denied: 'CreateObject'
/html2pdf.asp, line 22
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In order to solve "Permission denied" error message, you need give "Full Control" Permission to "Everyone" to "VeryPDFCom.RunCmd", please look at details at following web page,
After you give "Full Control" Permission to "Everyone" user account to "VeryPDFCom.RunCmd" DCOM, the "Permission denied" error in ASP will be solved completely, you will able to convert from HTML files to PDF files from ASP code without any problem.
Here is a PHP example to call htmltools.exe application by VeryPDFComRunCmd COM,
<?php
$comobj = new COM("VeryPDFCom.RunCmd") or die("Couldn't create the COM Component");
$strCmd = $comobj->RunCmd2("D:\VeryPDF\htmltools.exe -webkit https://www.verypdf.com D:\out.pdf", 5);
echo("Output is:\r\n" . $strCmd);
?>
ASP.NET example to call htmltools.exe application by VeryPDFComRunCmd COM,
<%
dim VeryPDFCom = Server.CreateObject("VeryPDFCom.RunCmd")
dim strCmd = "D:\VeryPDF\htmltools.exe -webkit https://www.verypdf.com D:\out.pdf"
Response.Write(strCmd & vbCrlf)
dim strRet = VeryPDFCom.RunCmd2(strCmd, 5)
Response.Write(strRet & vbCrlf)
%>
If you encounter any problem with htmltools.exe application and VeryPDFComRunCmd COM, please feel free contact us, we will assist you asap,
http://support.verypdf.com/open.php