how to convert from any file to pdf file using vb.net

[Chetan visodiya]

Hi all, I am developing one application using vb.net.In that I want to convert any file to pdf file. If you know then please help me. and also you know the code then send me....please Thanks Chetan

[Colin Angus Mackay]

Chetan.visodiya wrote:

I want to convert any file to pdf file

There are almost a limitless number of file formats out there and to do what you want would require a limitless amount of time because as you progress you will find that various ingenious people will come up with even more file formats. I think you need to add in some constraints into your specification. You need to list excactly what file formats you really need to convert and concentrate on them. By the way, if you do find a way of converting an MP3 to PDF I'd love to know!

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[ashish_patil]

By 'any' do you mean 'most/all printable files' . Then maybe there are ways. For MS Office documents you can use many of commercially avaliable tools or convert them to postscript first and then use a program like Ghostscript to get PDF. A nice program that does this is PDFCreator. For documents like Reports XML-FOP might be a good option. To author PDF documents , you can use the iTextSharp library. But I dont think there is a 'single' tool that can convert all printable file formats to PDF :(.For example if you have to convert word document to PDF or an excel sheet , then you MOST PROBABLY (99.99% ;)) will have to have MS Office installed onto your system. It will convert it to postscript and use tool like Distiller to conver it to PDF. You can mail me for more specific details. http://ashishware.com