title: creating pdf with itextsharp with images from database
body: <p>I have a process where the html is stored in database with image links. the images are also stored in db as well. I've created a controller action which reads the image from database. the path I'm generating is something like <code>/File/Image?path=Root/test.jpg</code>. 
  this image path is embedded in html in img tag like <code>&lt;img alt="logo" src="/File/Image?path=Root/001.jpg" /&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to use itextsharp to read the html from the database and create a pdf document</p>
  
  <pre><code>string _html = GenerateDocumentHelpers.CommissioningSheet(fleetId);
  string _html = GenerateDocumentHelpers.CommissioningSheet(fleetId);
  Document _document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 80, 50, 30, 65);
  MemoryStream _memStream = new MemoryStream();
  PdfWriter _writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(_document, _memStream);
  StringReader _reader = new StringReader(_html);            
  HTMLWorker _worker = new HTMLWorker(_document);
  _document.Open();            
  _worker.Parse(_reader);
  _document.Close();
  Response.Clear();
  Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=Commissioning.pdf");
  Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
  Response.Buffer = true;
  Response.OutputStream.Write(_memStream.GetBuffer(), 0, _memStream.GetBuffer().Length);
  Response.OutputStream.Flush();
  Response.End();
  return new FileStreamResult(Response.OutputStream, "application/pdf");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This code gives me an illegal character error. this comes from the image tag, it is not recognizing ? and = characters, is there a way I can render this html with img tag so that when I create a pdf it renders the html and image from the database and creates a pdf or if itextsharp can't do it, can you provide me with any other third party open source tools that can accomplish this task?</p>