How to print doc or xls file pdf silently

[muralidhar]

Hi All,

i want to print document file(doc/docx) and excel file(xls/xlsx) into pdf.

i am able get print using "System.Diagnostics.Process" class by using StartInfo.Verb = "Print" command.

but when i call Start() method its displaying dialog to give name to the output file(pdf file name).

can anybody please tell me how can i print silently without any dialog.

or is there any other way to achieve this uding our print drivers???

this is very urgent requirement for me.

please help me in this regard.

thanks in advance.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

If you have driver's SDK, you can configure your SDK driver to don't show SaveAs dialog (printer.Option["Save.ShowSaveDialog"] = "False";)

[muralidhar]

Hi,

thanks for the speedy reply.

i am very new to driver api.
so, can you please provide sample code for conversion using SDK Driver.
i am using c#.net, and i want to do the conversion using the same.

thanks in advance.

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello muralidhar,

Maybe the dev guys have been reluctant in answering this topic, as you are asking us things which you could easily find yourself shall you spend just a few minutes searching. While we do not have an explicit example in C#, what you are asking for is almost the base functionality of the driver, and as such you could construct your working project using pretty much any of the available samples.

What you need to do is call the correct application's printing routine and then pass the print job to our printing driver.

Best,
Stefan

[dkrot90]

In case anyone else is looking for this:

PXCComLib.CPXCPrinter PDFPrinter;
PDFPrinter.SetAsDefaultPrinter();
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.ShowSaveDialog", false);

// Some other options you may want to set
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.SaveType", 2);
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.ShowSaveDialog", false);
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.Path", "c:\\");
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.File", "MyFile");
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.WhenExists", 1);
PDFPrinter.set_Option("Save.RunApp", false);

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Thanks dkrot90

Cheers,
Stefan

[kmoens]

We have bought PDF-XChange v4 driver sdk. We have implemented the code mentioned in the early post about using multiple "PDFPrinter.set_Option" settings.
We have a (customer / end user) which has multiple versions of Microsoft Excel files. On the machine we submit these files to be converted Excel displays a message saying that a calculation must be executed and needs user interaction. This process is a background process and holds up the rest of our processing. We recently looked into changing the assocated viewer from Microsoft Excel for xls files to other viewing software. We haven't not had any luck. Then we ran across Office2PDF by Tracker Software. Office2PDF converted these xls files without any user interaction. While talking to a support representative they believe that we should be able to find a solution with the Driver SDK because that would be the same as the solutions used for Office2PDF. Could you provide us some direction to code this solution.
--Kevin

[Paul - Tracker Supp]

Hi Kevin,

I am the person you spoke to on the phone. It looks like you have missed the dev team for the week end. I will follow this through and see that you get an answer. It should be first thing in the new week.

regards

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

While talking to a support representative they believe that we should be able to find a solution with the Driver SDK because that would be the same as the solutions used for Office2PDF. Could you provide us some direction to code this solution.

You have to use Excel's ActiveX COM option to open your document and print it (your can use http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 12%29.aspx as you start point).

[kmoens]

This worked. We have now created OfficeAutomation executables.

Thanks

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Great to hear that kmoens

Cheers,
Stefan