HTML to PDF creation

Hi,
I dont know whether this is the right place to ask my question , So Please direct me .
In our application we need to convert HTML string to as a PDF document. Our client suggested try in Adobe Acrobat SDK , so i have started exploring in SDK but i am not able to find out the solution for my problem. So please tell me , for my scenaria can i Opt for Acrobat SDK ,and whether it has this feature to convert HTML string to as PDF document.
Thanks ,
Ramkumar

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