How to covert all formats to pdf using itextsharp? [modified]

[sush8]

How can i convert all formats to pdf using iTextsharp?

modified on Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:45 AM

[Pete OHanlon]

All formats of what? You can't - as you were told yesterday - how would you convert an exe for instance? Try to make your question more specific.

"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

[Lost User]

In addition to being just being normally impossible because of the vast number of formats in existence (many of which containing data that would not make sense in PDF form), it is also fundamentally impossible. What if anyone makes a new format? That problem can not be solved, and new formats are being made probably every day, maybe even more often.

[sush8]

I mean word document to pdf and text to pdf without using any converter.

[Lost User]

If you're not using a converter, how will anything get converted?

[sush8]

We have third party tools right.I think by using those we can.But i donno how to..iTextsharp is a third party tool for converting to pdf format.

[Lost User]

Ok, but AFAIK it's not a converter. Anyway, what is your question?

[sush8]

My task is to upload E-Books.I mean if client uploads any format of book to my server it should be converted to pdf internally.That means I have to convert different formats to pdf internally using .net code.Its not so easy so, i want to use third party tools.But I dont have any idea.

[Lost User]

What if you print them to a PDF printer? Most book formats should be printable.. That's just an idea though, I have no idea what would be the best solution.

[Lost User]

There's an article on iTextSharp[^]. You said that you're currently converting to PDF with the Google webservice, you'd just need to replace that part.

I are Troll :suss:

[sush8]

Google webservice is nothing but in which format we upload, it will display in that format.For example,if i upload word document it will open word document.But i want to convert to pdf. To know what is google docs,Once you open your gmail account and if you get any attached document just open it once,that document will be opened in another window which is noting but google docs.Is conversion possible?

[Lost User]

sunithaganugu wrote:

Is conversion possible?

As suggested before you can either write a program to do the conversion for you, using iTextSharp or similar third party library, or use one of the many PDF printer drivers to create the PDF files.

It's time for a new signature.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Just a thought - how are you going to deal with the DRM on most ebook formats?

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH