Problems with HTML content in generated PDF

Question

I am generating a PDF from HTML, but instead of interpreting it as normal text my PDF pages are filled with html tags like <p>, <li>, etc.

Answer 1

You'll need to remove all tags and unescape special chars.

PHP example:

$text = preg_replace($html, '<[^>]*>', '');
$text = html_entity_decode($text);

VB.NET example:

Dim text As String = Regex.Replace(html, "<[^>]*>", "")
text = System.Web.WebUtility.HtmlDecode(text)

Java example:

text = html.replaceAll("<[^>]*>", "");

For the html entity decoding you'll find a good answer here: Java: How to unescape HTML character entities in Java?. Otherwise you could just replace them if you know all of them ( , ", ...).