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I'm using GemBox for my project now. Currently my module requires only excel which is why I've tried and really like using this application. Talk to my PM about the possibility of purchasing it but they wanted something similar that might work for word documents as well as just excel so that others might use it as it is more common for word documents to be generated.
These product have both Excel and Word component.
SoftArtisans OfficeWriter
http://www.softartisans.com/
aspose cells and word
http://www.aspose.com/
office.Net
http://www.independentsoft.de/office/index.html
GemBox also has both Excel and Word component:
GemBox.Spreadsheet for Excel in .NET
GemBox.Document for Word in .NET
I have worked both with GemBox and Aspose (in particular using Aspose with Word and PDF) and personally i prefer this second one.
In addition Aspose let you manipulate a lot of file format (pdf, word, excell, power point, one note, eml, msg.. and so on), depending on which license you required.
You can try Docentric Toolkit. It uses Word template documents and fills them with data from any source which can be read by .NET. Templates can even be prepared/modified by end users, is they are permitted to do so.
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I am trying to convert a docx into a pdf file from an ASP.NET MVC application. I have been using Microsoft interop saveas command til now but it sometimes (not always) fails with the error "command failed". I have seen that it is already deprecated and not supported by Microsoft anymore and Microsoft says it is not recommended to use it anymore from an ASP.NET application so I am trying to get alternatives.
I have seen there is a good one, that is, aspose.words but it is not free. I am interested in a free one. So nowadays is there any free alternative out there that is compatible with Microsoft docx documents and capable to convert into pdf without problems?
I am interested in a free one
There isn't one. Office/Word's .docx file format is incredibly long and complicated (see below), so writing a program that can fully parse a Word document alone is a mammoth undertaking, alone the as-important task of generating a visual-formatting model representation, and then convert that visual model to a PDF file by generating PostScript/PDF commands from it.
This is what OOXML specification looks like when it's printed out:
(Source: https://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/05/ooxml_more_than_1.html )
Then consider all the features and edge-cases present in the Word formatting model: tables, headings, drop-caps, captions, (don't forget embedded and external content using OLE!), floating textboxes, WordArt, and so on.
Non-visual processing of the XML representation of a Word document is actually trivial and can be done with any XML library - though you should use an OOXML-schema-aware library so you process the Word document correctly (so you don't end-up inserting a paragraph into a header, or a caption that fills the page).
Everything else is the difficult (and expensive) part of the problem. This is why, even today, almost 40 years after Word was first released and 15 years after the OOXML format specification was released, third-party software like OpenOffice (nee StarOffice) and Apple iWork still cannot fully and correctly import or render Word documents.
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I am looking for an easy way to convert doc and docx extension files to pdf using C# and ASP.NET. I had previously used iTextSharp for the purpose but that requires creating a document from the scratch. But I want a way to convert the Word files as it is to pdf. Like if it includes images, tables etc they must be converted to pdf as it is. Is there any free library or code? Thanks in advance.
1) You can check this PDFConverter, it might helpful to you. It is a COM component, callable from .NET.
2) Or you can check this open source library PDFSharp.
3) And the third option is Aspose libraray
If you are able to buy a component then you can use Aspose Words, which is best for converting Word document to PDF as it is. There is no need to install Ms Office if this component is used.
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I am searching any kind of tool which can be convert any kind of extension of them (doc,docx,xls,xlsx,jpeg,jpg,txt,pdf,rtf) into pdf file in asp.net code like aspose tool but its too much costly i want same functionality like aspose tool but not much expensive.
Please suggest me any kind of tool like this....
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iTextSharp maybe would do the trick for you?
Here is a link for you
I am sure that if you want to put the time into it, the office com-interop objects can do it. Libre office has an api that can do it as well.
3-Heights have a component (Document Converter) that does this. For HTMl there are several other alternatives (see here: Convert HTML to PDF in .NET).
If you have full control over the web server, you could try to print those documents to a PDF printer or use an installed Acrobat Writer, though I wouldn't recommend this solution. It has somehow the smell of a hack...
Edit: 3 Heights Document Converter Service
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I'm now working on a .net/c# project requires to generate a contract pdf file (for printing and browsing purpose) based on some info traced from database.
The file also concludes several pages content which is fixed. It seems that crystal report does not deal well with multiple pages files. I also did research online, someone said use iTextSharp.
The question is the format of the file can be complicated. iTextSharp is kinda of not efficient on this issue.
Anyone has an idea?
PDF Sharp is an excellent library for this. They also have Migra-Doc which allows you to write documents to pdf, xps and rtf. The API is robust and based on GDI, pages shouldn't be a problem, you can even draw tables and stuff.
Quick Samples are here but download the project source, they have a hoard of good samples.
Please take a look at Windward Reports (I'm the CTO at Windward). With Windward you design in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint so anything, no matter how complex, that you can layout in Office, we can then render with data in PDF.
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I would need to edit a pdf at runtime in C#.NET. Is this possible? Like copying things in the pdf, editing textfields, ...?
Look at iTextSHARP. It's a .NET library for manipulating PDFs.
It is definitely possible, but not with what is built-in to .NET (unless you are a PDF format guru and can roll your own). I've mostly used Aspose for manipulating PDFs, but there are a lot of toolkits out there. Personally, I think Aspose is a little rough around the edges but not moreso than other kits.
Well there's iTextSharp : http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/ with which you can write pdf files, but I don't think it has editing (reading pdf) capabilities, or they will be limited.
I've never found a way to edit PDF's, unless you buy some third party tool ...
Look at this
iText# (iTextSharp) is a port of the iText open source java library for PDF generation written entirely in C# for the .NET platform.
Docotic.Pdf library may be used to edit PDF files. You can fill forms, import and export forms data, extract text, append documents and so on. Please take a look at samples for the library.
Disclaimer: I work for Bit Miracle.
It can be done, have a look at iTextSharp.
ITextSharp is good for adding things to a PDF.
These PDF components are also pretty good: www.tallcomponents.com