Save As PDF using C#

Welcome guys , this day we will display an esay way to convert files from any format that Microsoft Office open to PDF file format using simple C# code.

Frist of all you should to install 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF (very small about 934 KB) .

Click here to download it from Microsoft site

After you have finished your setup , you should to have new save as option like the picture .

Secondly : add this two reference to your DotNet project as you see in this picture .

Then insert the required namespaces in the project ..

Like here :

using System;

using System.Data;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;

finally : here is the class called Doc2PDFAtServerClass , this class have only one static function word2PdfFcih which have two paramters .

this is a example :

object SourceFileName = “Fci-H.doc” ;

object newFileName = “Fci-H.pdf” ;

static public class Doc2PDFAtServerClass

{

static public void word2PdfFcih(object SourceFileName, object newFileName)

{

//Pid++;

Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass MSdoc = null;

//object Source = "d:\\Document" + Pid.ToString(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture) + ".doc";

object Source = SourceFileName;

object readOnly = false;

object Unknown = System.Reflection.Missing.Value; //Type.Missing;

object missing = Type.Missing;

try

{

//Creating the instance of Word Application

if (MSdoc == null)

MSdoc = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass();

MSdoc.Visible = false;

MSdoc.Documents.Open(ref Source, ref Unknown,

ref readOnly, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown,

ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

MSdoc.Application.Visible = false;

MSdoc.WindowState = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdWindowState.wdWindowStateMinimize;

object FileName = newFileName;

object FileFormat = WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF;

object LockComments = false;

object AddToRecentFiles = false;

object ReadOnlyRecommended = false;

object EmbedTrueTypeFonts = true;

object SaveNativePictureFormat = false;

object SaveFormsData = false;

object SaveAsAOCELetter = false;

//object Encoding = MsoEncoding.msoEncodingUSASCII;

object InsertLineBreaks = false;

object AllowSubstitutions = false;

object LineEnding = WdLineEndingType.wdCRLF;

object AddBiDiMarks = false;

/*

to get more details about SaveAs(...) function and it's parameter ,read this microsoft's link

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa662158(office.10).aspx

*/

MSdoc.ActiveDocument.SaveAs(ref FileName, ref FileFormat, ref LockComments,

ref missing, ref AddToRecentFiles, ref missing,

ref ReadOnlyRecommended, ref EmbedTrueTypeFonts,

ref SaveNativePictureFormat, ref SaveFormsData,

ref SaveAsAOCELetter, ref /*Encoding*/missing, ref InsertLineBreaks,

ref AllowSubstitutions, ref LineEnding, ref AddBiDiMarks);

}

catch (FileLoadException e)

{

Console.WriteLine(e.Message + "Error" );

}

catch (FileNotFoundException e)

{

Console.WriteLine(e.Message + "Error");

}

catch (FormatException e)

{

Console.WriteLine(e.Message + "Error");

}

finally

{

if (MSdoc != null)

{

MSdoc.Documents.Close(ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

//WordDoc.Application.Quit(ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

}

// for closing the application

// WordDoc.Quit(ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

MSdoc.Quit(ref Unknown, ref Unknown, ref Unknown);

MSdoc = null;

}

}

}

Have fun ;) ..