Converting a .docx to .pdf in c# is a pain in the tits.

(Without paying or using office obvs)

But why?

I've never had to do this but I'd start with a byte stream.

...and then probably jump off a bridge a week later.

Damn, if working with excel (official libs) is a pain in the butt i cant imagine word and ever worse pdf generation

There might be web apis

Isn't there a library for that? I don't know C#, but that seems to be something that many people need.

@620hun afik only paid ones.

@620hun yeah most of the libraries for handling pdfs are paid, like iText in java, apache pdfbox is a good alternative tho

@ScribeOfGoD to what end?

@jpichardo to what end? To stop the multi millionaires from hoarding the world's wealth. No one man needs to be titled "Worlds richest man" how about worlds most generous man :p

@ScribeOfGoD sorry, why did u commented that here? No looking for trouble juat want to know if there is any relation to the rant

@ScribeOfGoD and Im (!not) a piratebay user, i (!always) pay for everythinf

@jpichardo no trouble if ya use a VPN ;) Viva la pirates

@ScribeOfGoD yup i know

I had to do this once. We generated documents in word but some users were not allowed to edit them. Apparently some people think you cannot edit a PDF..

Anyway it was a thick client so what we did is download a word doc then used msword on the client to convert it.

What if you decompiled Ms Word and then used its convert function in a separate script?

/*That's a joke @no-one is that crazy*/

MS Word has a "save as pdf" option, maybe there is a way to call that? Otherwise, have you looked at Pandoc?

@spacem hmm, I wonder if Interop would work then?

@bighead interop works fine, (deadlock risks and Microsoft advice aside) but is dependent on office being installed on the server which I'd like to avoid.

@ErwinJanssen your first suggestion is dependent on interop and office so would like to avoid that. I'm not familiar with Pandoc but I'll look into it, thanks.

You could look for solutions in other languages. Less than ideal, but a possibility. E.g. https://npmjs.com/package/docx-pdf/

Just programmatically change the file extension ;)

@AlgoRythm yeah...about that...