Question

I’m not sure if this is possible but as I was looking for a way to convert docx -> pdf serverside (Aspose is a bit expensive), I wondered if I could do this by printing my document to a Pdf Printer.

Altho, I would need a decent one then, as it shouldn’t show dialogs when trying to print ofc.

Does anyone know if:

• This is possible
• There exists such a printer which can be easily used in a WCF Service

Thanks

Answer 1

Try pdfcreator.

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application.

Key Features:

• Create PDFs from any program that is able to print

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• Terminal Server: PDFCreator also runs on Terminal Servers without problems

If you can read DOCX content and print from your WCF service, the pdfcreator printer driver will generate PDF from anything.