PdfException: Blink files are missing at ...

[Allan Debastiani]

Hi there. I've made a new project for testing and it ocurred the same. configuring or not the BlinkPath.

Using Macbook Pro M2.

C# .NetCore MVC 

Syncfusion.Pdf.PdfException: "Blink files are missing at /BlinkBinaries/"

  at Syncfusion.HtmlConverter.BlinkConverter.GetBlinkPath()\n at Syncfusion.HtmlConverter.BlinkConverter.Convert(String url)\n at Syncfusion.HtmlConverter.HtmlToPdfConverter.Convert(String url)\n at SYNCFUSION_HTML_TO_PDF.Controllers.HomeController.Export() in /Users/user/Projects/SYNCFUSION-HTML-TO-PDF/SYNCFUSION-HTML-TO-PDF/Controllers/HomeController.cs:48

Sample:

    public IActionResult Export()

    {

        //Initialize HTML converter

        HtmlToPdfConverter htmlConverter = new HtmlToPdfConverter(HtmlRenderingEngine.Blink);

        // Blink converter settings

        BlinkConverterSettings blinkSettings = new BlinkConverterSettings();

        //Assign the Blink binaries path

        blinkSettings.BlinkPath = @"/BlinkBinaries/";

        //Add post parameters

        blinkSettings.HttpPostFields.Add("firstName", "Andrew");

        blinkSettings.HttpPostFields.Add("lastName", "Fuller");

        //Assign the Blink settings

        htmlConverter.ConverterSettings = blinkSettings;

        //Convert HTML to PDF

        PdfDocument document = htmlConverter.Convert("http://asp.syncfusion.com/demos/http_post_get/default.aspx");

        //Create memory stream.

        MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();

        //Save and close the document.

        document.Save(stream);

        document.Close();

        return File(stream.ToArray(), System.Net.Mime.MediaTypeNames.Application.Pdf, "HTML-to-PDF.pdf");

    }

Can i solve it?

[Santhiya Narayanan]

There is no need to set the BlinkPath in BlinkConverterSettings in sample level. For Mac, we have to manually extract the  Chromium.app.zip folder in bin folder of the application for the first time. You can overcome the reported issue by unzipping the Chromium.app into the specified folder (bin/Debug/net6.0/runtimes/osx/native) and try the conversion. 

[Allan Debastiani]

It worked out! Thanks a lot!