Desired result
I want to print a file to a new PDF using the Windows 10 printer "Microsoft Print to PDF" which is installed by default.
When you select this printer as your default printer and use your context menu on a file and select Print, it only asks for a save directory and name. After that, it immediately converts to PDF and saves the file.
As long as MS Office is installed, this works for Word, Excel, PowerPoint file types. But also for common image types and normal text files.
I'd like to automate this by providing a default path.
What I already tried
Stackoverflow already has this related question, but it does not address my specific problem and is rather incomplete and not working.
But I came up with this C# console program which uses the PDF printer to produce a new PDF on my desktop with "Hello World" as string
namespace PrintToPdf_Win10
{
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
PrintDocument printDoc = new PrintDocument
{
PrinterSettings = new PrinterSettings
{
PrinterName = "Microsoft Print to PDF",
PrintToFile = true,
PrintFileName = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) + "/test.pdf"
}
};
printDoc.PrintPage += printDoc_PrintPage;
printDoc.Print();
Console.ReadKey(true);
}
static void printDoc_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.DrawString("Hello World", new Font("Arial", 12), Brushes.Black, 50, 50);
}
}
}
Problem
How do I set the content of - let's say a Word file - as input for my printDoc
object?
Is there a generic way to set printDoc
by providing only a filePath to my file I want to print from? Or do I have to create a custom function for each possible filetype families like:
- Office filetypes (
doc, docx, xls, xlsx, xlsm, ppt, pptx
etc.)
- Image filetypes (
png, bmp, jpg
)
- text files (
txt, rtf, ini
)
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