Edit (2010-11-28 12:30 PM PST) Please +1 this answer if you download my code. I notice my Codeplex sample has been downloaded hundreds of times. The code isn t spectacular, but it works as a great starting point, with lots of links to source help included. Thanks! +汤姆 Edit (2009-03-29 9:00 AM PST) Posted sample conversion.
Edit (2009-03-23 12:30 PM PST, published to CodePlex) I developed a solution for this and posted it to CodePlex. The published version 2.0 is written using the WPF MVVP pattern. TIFF files (one per page) are output to c:TempXhtmlToTiff. XAML and XPS formats are created as well. A compiled,installable version is available at CricketSoft.com

有一个用于处理XPS文档和Open XML文档的SDK。这是Beth Massi的一篇如何文章：“Accessing Open XML Document Parts with the Open XML SDK”。

+汤姆

我的个人看法是，如果您是一位XSLT忍者，我建议您继续使用它。您可以通过查看nFop来避免使用令人讨厌的JAVA程序，它是apache FOP项目的C#端口。很棒的是，您只需获取该程序集并直接使用它，将您的XML和XSLT传递给它，即可获得所需的PDF输出。

将此翻译成中文：http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfop/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/nfop/

希望能有所帮助。

如果你的目标是TIFF格式，这可能是一种免费且低风险的方法：

1. Use a component to create an image for a given url. I m not sure which tool we used for it, but GIYF: I just stumbled upon SmallSharpTool s WebPreview that seems to do the job
2. Make sure it can create an image of the entire page, ie the entire s scrollable area.
3. Use ImageMagick to do all the image manipulation, such as cutting it into multiple pages, adding your own headers, footers and page numbering and conversion to tiff.

我个人曾单独在 C# 项目（控制台应用程序和网站）中使用上述技术，并取得了成功，因此我几乎可以保证这将起作用。

Use some other technology that I haven t even thought of yet, like LaTeX.

TexML 是具有 XML 语法的 LaTeX 语义。为了使用它，您可以创建 XSLT，用 TexML 命令装饰您的 XHTML（请参见示例）。

你有没有考虑使用PostScript？

附言：您需要什么样的页眉/页脚 - 您自定义的以放置页面之间？如果是这样，后脚或PDF可能是最好的选择。但是，将创建xhtml+css到PDF转换器将非常困难。基本上，您需要使用能够解析xhtml和css（+任何对象，例如图像，闪存等）的库。

PrinceXML is an XHTML/CSS to PDF converter. It seems to have the features you need:

• Page headers/footers, page numbering and duplex printing.

I realize you ll probably want more extensive answers than this one (I m sorry, but I haven t evaluated the product), but nevertheless, I hope it helps!

It all depends on how important quality is for the generated documents. It also matters what other operations you need to do with the document.

I m building a desktop application right now that presents its human-readable output as XHTML displayed in a WebBrowser control. Eventually, this output is going to have to be converted from an XHTML file to a document image in an imaging system.

Looks like your application is a soft-form of sorts. You generate filled-in forms and save them.

[...]there need to be headers and footers on these pages.

This is the easy part. You can use templates and merge the data with the static header/footer template. You sound as if you are doing VDP. Hm. Let s move on.

I can t simply make the WebBrowser print to a file - the header/footer options it supports aren t anywhere near sophisticated enough.

Why so? All you need is a capable driver.

It seems likely to me (though it s not mandatory) that what I ll end up doing is producing PDF versions of the HTML documents

Again, it is not clear why you would want PDF right away. PDF is a document interchange format. Not a PDL per se. PostScript is a much better choice. Yes, I know there are things like XPS, PCL and what not. However, the amount of rendering control and quality you get with PS is far too much to risk a cheaper solution. I say cheaper, because, you also need to keep in mind the sort of printing you can avail of. PostScript printers (not the ones with the clone RIPs) are costlier in general.

Now, back to your PDF thing. Yes, of course you can generate PDF. It has certain advantages like:

• Better support for transparency (and in general quality)
• Archival
• Interchange
• Share it across for review
• Preview/Preflight/Correct
• Security
• Stream encryption (for both security and the amount of data you transfer to the printer)
• Use templates

But remember do you have any printers to do native PDF ripping? Because you are otherwise doing a lossy PDF to PS/PCL conversion. And you ve just lost the game. Which brings me back to PostScript ;)

You can use PISA for Python. It uses the reportlab toolkit to generate a pdf from html (using html5lib)

You could also try using PDFCreator and simply printing the document to PDF. PDFCreator acts like any normal printer and uses ghostscript to convert printer output to pdf, tiff, jpeg, or whatever you want. I think you can change header and footer items through IE s com interface and print directly from IE. PDFCreator has examples for different languages in the com folder of the install directory. I have used it and can vouch for it. Windows only though.

Do you really need to use XHTML/Web browser?

I have been in this exact dilemma trying to generate good looking HTML reports and the solution I found is .... to drop HTML and use a "real" report generator, there are a lot of them out there, they all support all the pagination and header/footer options you can think about they can usually print to pdf and sometimes directly to images.

HTML is just not the right technology for reports.

ExpertPDF HtmlToPdf Converter (www.html-to-pdf.net) should be able to do exactly what you need. It s really simple to use, just reference the assembly in your project and start using it. I ve used this product with great success in a couple of work projects.

You mentioned your current desktop app exports results in xhtml. Since xhtml is well formed xml, you should get away with using xsl fo to export it to pdf.

XML -> XSL-FO = PDF

Here s a beginner s guide: http://www.devx.com/xml/Article/16430

My company has used this technique in a java+cocoon webaplication for the Dutch government.

http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/

quoting from above website:

IECapt is a small command-line utility to capture Internet Explorer s rendering of a web page into a BMP, JPEG or PNG image file. The C++ version also has experimental support for Enhanced Metafile vector graphic output. IECapt is available in a C++ and a C# version.