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Is there any SDK available to convert MS word and Excel files to PDF ? I wan to do it on Web Server at run time. Im using VS 2010, .Net Framewrok 4.0 I looked into MS interop assembly but then this artical pushed me back http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757

is there any thirdparty tool/SDK/Service available that will do that at runtime?

skaffman
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  • Related; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537063/itextsharp-convert-word-doc-docx-to-pdf (not mentioned is doc->html->pdf which itextsharp can do. – Alex K. May 10 '11 at 14:25

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You can use the Save as function which is already available in Microsoft.Office.Interop 

doc.SaveAs(ref FileName, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF);
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Check out iText, there is a Java and C# library however I think the .NET library is not free. http://www.itextpdf.com/

maple_shaft
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If you are after perfect conversion then there is no real solution available / viable other than somehow involving Office. Plain MS-Interop is a nightmare and very unreliable, but there are good third party solutions available.

Give the Muhimbi PDF Converter Services a look. It installs in your environment as a scalable and robust Windows Service and has specifically been designed for use from server based applications such as ASP.NET.

It comes with a friendly web services based interface that allows it to be used from most modern environments such as Java and .NET. It supports all common as well as some not so common file formats. Watermarking and PDF Security is included as well. If you have SharePoint in your environment then a SharePoint optimised version is available as well.

Disclaimer, I have worked on this product so the usual disclaimers apply. Having said that, it works great.

Jeroen Ritmeijer
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