What’s new in Rotativa 1.3

The long awaited update of Rotativa has finally arrived. It has important new features, that meet users requests and add new ways of creating Pdf files.
Adding to that I finally managed to add badly needed test automation and I hope I can add more tests in the future.
I should give credit to Scoorf for submitting a nice pull request on GitHub that holds much of the new features. Merging his pull request gave me the opportunity to learn about branches in Git, I should say it’s really easy and very effective and safe way to manage collaborative code.

New features are:

ViewAsPdf action result

This basically works as the normal View action result but you get the Pdf instead of the Html response.

Basic syntax is:

     public ActionResult TestViewAsPdf(string id)  
     {  
       var model = new MyViewModel {DocTitle = id, DocContent = "This is a test"};  
       return new ViewAsPdf(model);  
     }  

It’s even easier then ActionAsPdf, plus you won’t have problems  with authentication and cookies.

UrlAsPdf action result

This action result enables to return any URL as pdf.

Pdf properties

Now are available new properties for the Action results. Those new properties are:

• Margins
• Size
  • Paper size (as in A3, A4 etc)
• PageWidth and PageHeight
• PageOrientation
• Post
• To set Post values
• and a handful of others…