PrintDocument to PDF (via PDFcreator)

Question

Hi Gurus,

I have an application which manages some contracts.

I have the option of Printing these contracts.

For that I use PrintDocument, for preview PrintPreview.

I have a PDFcreator installed on my computer (and on the client's cumputers too).

It's fine when I show the printpreview and save it as PDF via PDFcreator.

But I would like to save the contract to PDF programmatically.

I heard it's possible to do with the PDFcreator, but after some googling couldn't find how..

I couldn't find any proper manual or documentation for pdf creator even on sourceforge.

Could you tell me how to save printdocument to PDF format, please??

Thank you very much :-)

Petr

riyan marge · Answer

Check this simple PDF Creator... http://csharp.net-informations.com/file/create-pdf.htm Riyan

Frogleg · Answer

Have a look at PDFSharp or iTextSharp, this may be what you are looking for http://www.pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Petr · Answer

This is great, thanks. But stil, it brings uo the pdfcreator menu and options. I would like to skip that and save the printdocument as pdf directly.. Thank you Petr

Frogleg · Answer

Try this using System.Drawing.Printing; string pdfPrinter; //pdfcreator name in button event { string strDefaultPrinter = printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PrinterName; foreach ( String strPrinter in PrinterSettings .InstalledPrinters) { if (strPrinter.Contains( "PDF" )) { pdfPrinter = strPrinter; } } printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = pdfPrinter; }