Convert Word documents to PDF library in C# ?
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
How about installing a "PDF Printer" (PrimoPDF or similar) and automating Word through its COM interface?
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Using the Microsoft PDF plug in[^] and a bit of automation or even VBA should do the trick.
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Using the Microsoft PDF plug in[^] and a bit of automation or even VBA should do the trick.
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I have to follow Duncan on this... Its the fastes way... But its only for Office 2007.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Microsoft Word 2007 gives you a "Save As" option of Adobe PDF.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Yeah, we definately do not want our users to have to print, or to require Office 2007, so this is the way to go. Thanks.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Yeah, we definately do not want our users to have to print, or to require Office 2007, so this is the way to go. Thanks.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Check out for some reviews though, I can't remember if it was them or a company like ComponentOne who had some issues. From what I remember Aspose isn't too bad.
Their web page is a joke, their support is in China, and as they are not online right now, it goes to 'send an email', but it asks for my personal details and there's no where on the form to provide them. So, I cannot contact them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Their web page is a joke, their support is in China, and as they are not online right now, it goes to 'send an email', but it asks for my personal details and there's no where on the form to provide them. So, I cannot contact them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Their web page is a joke, their support is in China, and as they are not online right now, it goes to 'send an email', but it asks for my personal details and there's no where on the form to provide them. So, I cannot contact them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I was about to post vouching for Aspose, but then I read your posts and now I'm not too sure. We used to rely heavily on their PDF generator libs from VB.NET for eSense's clients, but that was a few years ago and I have no idea what state they're in now.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
You could look at TXText control http://www.textcontrol.com/[^] - I know it supports Word and PDF - so in principal you can open a Word document, give it to TXText and then save it as a PDF. Although it is designed to be a word processing control, it would probably suit your requirements...
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Did you ever check out the library I already suggested? http://tallpdf.net/default.aspx?id=home[^] If not have a look.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I will second the recommendation of http://www.aspose.com/
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I use CutePDF for converting documents, but I don't know if they offer a library version of it. It installs as a printer driver, and when you print any type of file to it the output is a PDF document. Much to my surprise it even works with ArcGIS' ArcINfo maps and AutoCAD 2007 drawings. I'd check to see if there's a library available.
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Their web page is a joke, their support is in China, and as they are not online right now, it goes to 'send an email', but it asks for my personal details and there's no where on the form to provide them. So, I cannot contact them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Hmm I used aspose.words and aspose.pdf for a project last year. Basically I needed to develop a "templating" engine that would take a word document as a template (so end-users could edit it) and mail merge in fields and regions, saving the output as either a word document or a pdf. aspose.words gave me complete control over the DOM of the word doc, allowing me to cut/paste sections with ease and a couple of lines of code let me save the doc as a pdf. It worked very well and I had no complaints whatsoever. I never had to use their support but I found some good info on their KB and forum. I know the aspose.words developers are based in Auckland, NZ. They have a "trial" edition which watermarks the output which was fine for our test/dev environments, and the end client sorted out their own license.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Get a free virtual printer which uses Ghostscript and automate the printing process. This C# article gives an idea:http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/anyfiletopdf.aspx[^] This is basically a series of hacks, but it gets the job done, producing nice PDFs.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I had to do this on a project I work on and I've been using PDFCreator[^], iTextSharp and VSTO to do the job. I have written a class that converts many types of documents(word, excel, images, html ...) in PDF and can also concatenate them. PDFCreator and iTextSharp are open source so you don't need to buy a license.
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Does anyone know of a library that will convert Word to PDF ? There's an article on CP, but it looks a little convoluted, requires things on the client machine that I don't want to require ( like Crystal ) and the license terms are not clear. I am happy to buy something, but I've been googling and I can't find any that do what I want ( that is PDF.GenerateFromWordDoc(@"c:\word.doc", @"c:\my.pdf"); or something similiar )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I did something like this a few years ago, and used OLE Automation of Word 2000 and "PDFCreator" http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/[^]. An important issue for me was that I wanted the Word TOC/Index hyperlinks to be active in the final PDF, and just printing to a PDF printer lost than capability. For this, I added "PDF-T-Maker" http://www.transcom.de/transcom/en/2004_pdf-t-maker.htm[^] to the mix. The final result could give you whiplash just watching the window pops on the screen, but it did work... resnbl
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I did something like this a few years ago, and used OLE Automation of Word 2000 and "PDFCreator" http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/[^]. An important issue for me was that I wanted the Word TOC/Index hyperlinks to be active in the final PDF, and just printing to a PDF printer lost than capability. For this, I added "PDF-T-Maker" http://www.transcom.de/transcom/en/2004_pdf-t-maker.htm[^] to the mix. The final result could give you whiplash just watching the window pops on the screen, but it did work... resnbl
I suggest http://www.textcontrol.com/, i use it, it's very simple to do what you want, if you want , you can look at http://www.textcontrol.com/products/client\_side/movie/ to see what simple it is to use ;) i really like it :D
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Their web page is a joke, their support is in China, and as they are not online right now, it goes to 'send an email', but it asks for my personal details and there's no where on the form to provide them. So, I cannot contact them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
We used this on a large project last year for auto-generating invoices and it worked very solidly. As with the other posters, we didn't need to call on their support, but seem to recall a very healthy forum. We did also try Report.Net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/report/[^] but found, although it had very granular control, it was very fiddly and time-consuming to get accurate output. Ben