Question

I have a web app that needs to be able to convert word documents into pdf programmatically just prior to send an email out.

I’ve been using a 3rd party utility (aspose) but the client writes very complicated word documents and they need the formatting to come out perfectly on the pdf. Aspose isn’t rendering everything correctly.

I call Adobe sales and they said Acrobat could create pdfs programmatically. I bought Acrobat, thinking that surely that would do a better job rendering things than aspose.

I set up the COM call correctly and it compiled, but I’m getting the following exception at runtime:

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {72498821-3203-101B-B02E-04021C009402} failed due to the following error: 80070005.

Some of the things I’m reading indicate that Acrobat may not allow that COM DLL to be registered on a server OS. If so, I’m going to be angry.

Help? Surely it can’t be THIS hard to create a correct PDF programmatically….

Answer 1

How about you install Microsoft Save as PDF addin; and save word to pdf?