EVO HTML to PDF Converter offers you the possibility to insert a list of documents before the table of contents using the PdfDocumentOptionsAddStartDocument(String) method. An object of PdfDocumentOptions type is exposed by the HtmlToPdfConverterPdfDocumentOptions property.
Code Sample - Merge Conversion Result with Existing PDFs
C#
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http; using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting; // Use EVO PDF Namespace using EvoPdfClient; namespace EvoHtmlToPdfDemo.Controllers.HTML_to_PDF.Table_of_Contents { public class Insert_PDF_Pages_Before_Table_of_ContentsController : Controller { private readonly Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.IWebHostEnvironment m_hostingEnvironment; public Insert_PDF_Pages_Before_Table_of_ContentsController(IWebHostEnvironment hostingEnvironment) { m_hostingEnvironment = hostingEnvironment; } [HttpPost] public ActionResult ConvertHtmlToPdf(IFormCollection collection) { // Get the server options string serverIP = collection["textBoxServerIP"]; uint serverPort = uint.Parse(collection["textBoxServerPort"]); string servicePassword = collection["textBoxServicePassword"]; bool useServicePassword = servicePassword.Length > 0; bool useTcpService = collection["ServerType"] == "radioButtonUseTcpService"; string webServiceUrl = collection["textBoxWebServiceUrl"]; // Create the HTML to PDF converter object HtmlToPdfConverter htmlToPdfConverter = null; if (useTcpService) htmlToPdfConverter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(serverIP, serverPort); else htmlToPdfConverter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(true, webServiceUrl); // Set optional service password if (useServicePassword) htmlToPdfConverter.ServicePassword = servicePassword; // Set license key received after purchase to use the converter in licensed mode // Leave it not set to use the converter in demo mode htmlToPdfConverter.LicenseKey = "4W9+bn19bn5ue2B+bn1/YH98YHd3d3c="; // Set an adddional delay in seconds to wait for JavaScript or AJAX calls after page load completed // Set this property to 0 if you don't need to wait for such asynchcronous operations to finish htmlToPdfConverter.ConversionDelay = 2; // Set the PDF file to be inserted before the table of contents string pdfFileBefore = m_hostingEnvironment.ContentRootPath + "/wwwroot" + "/DemoAppFiles/Input/PDF_Files/Merge_Before_Conversion.pdf"; htmlToPdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.AddStartDocument(pdfFileBefore); // Enable the creation of a table of contents from H1 to H6 tags found in HTML htmlToPdfConverter.TableOfContentsOptions.AutoTocItemsEnabled = collection["autoTableOfContentsCheckBox"].Count > 0; // Optionally set the table of contents title htmlToPdfConverter.TableOfContentsOptions.Title = "Table of Contents"; // Optionally set the title style using CSS sttributes htmlToPdfConverter.TableOfContentsOptions.TitleStyle = "color:navy; font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:28px; font-weight:normal"; // Optionally set the style of level 1 items in table of contents string level1TextStyle = "color:black; font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:20px; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; background-color:#F0F0F0"; htmlToPdfConverter.TableOfContentsOptions.SetItemStyle(1, level1TextStyle); // Optionally set the page numbers style of level 1 items in table of contents string level1PageNumberStyle = "color:black; padding-right:3px; background-color:#F0F0F0; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold"; htmlToPdfConverter.TableOfContentsOptions.SetPageNumberStyle(1, level1PageNumberStyle); // The URL to convert string url = collection["urlTextBox"]; // Convert the HTML page to a PDF document in a memory buffer byte[] outPdfBuffer = htmlToPdfConverter.ConvertUrl(url); // Send the PDF file to browser FileResult fileResult = new FileContentResult(outPdfBuffer, "application/pdf"); fileResult.FileDownloadName = "Insert_PDF_Before_Table_of_Contents.pdf"; return fileResult; } } }