Converting aspx with gis / Hebrew to PDF - asp.net

I'm trying to to convert aspx pages to PDF.
The two main issues I've encountered are:
Some of those pages contains gis elements (mostly google maps, but some may be municipal maps). When the user changes their position - I want it to be converted properly. Right now I couldn't event convert their default position to pdf.
The text is in Hebrew and I'm having hard time converting it.
I've tried using jsPDF - used their addHTML function and looked at their runner example (which is using iframe - but doesn't seem to work on explorer, or with maps)
Does anyone have any other idea as to how I can convert this? Maybe convert the page to jpeg and then to convert it?
If you have working samples - that would be excellent.

You can try using IECapt (http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/) to convert it to JPEG and then convert it from JPEG to PDF.
for example:
IECapt --url=http://www.page_you_want_to_render.org/ --out=the_render.jpeg

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I had a similar issue and recognised that the exported .tif files had a different bit depth than .tif images I could open. The images could not be displayed using common applications, although they were not broken and I could open them in R or QGIS. Hence, the values were coded in a way Windows would not expect.
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I set the following options to make the resulting .tif file readable (note the datatype option):
writeRaster(raster, filename = "/path/to/your/output.tif",
format = "GTiff", datatype = "INT1U")
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I realised your post is from 2 and a half years ago... Anyways, may this answer help others who encounter this problem.

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A friend of mine doing an internship asked me 2 hours ago if I could help him avoid to do manually 462 pdf file to .xls using free online soft.
I thought of a shell script using unoconv, but I didn't find out how to use it properly, and I am not sure if unoconv can solve this problem since it mainly converts file to pdf, not the reverse thing.
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Other responses on a linked question suggest Tabula, too.
https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
I tried and it works very well.

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