Print Pdf in C

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I m new to c   I was looking all over the net for tutorials on how to print pdf  but couldn t find one   Then I thought  is it possible to read it using itextpdf  like mentioned here  Reading PDF content with itextsharp dll in VB NET or C   then print it  If so  how

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I advice you to try 2Printer command line tool from: http://www.doc2prn.com/

Command line example to print all PDF files from folder "C:\Input" is below. You can simple call it from your C# code.

2Printer.exe -s "C:\Input*.PDF" -prn "Canon MP610 series Printer"

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The easiest way is to create C  Process and launch external tool to print your PDF file  private static void ExecuteRawFilePrinter         Process process   new Process        process StartInfo FileName    c   Program Files  x86   RawFilePrinter  RawFilePrinter exe       process StartInfo WindowStyle   ProcessWindowStyle Hidden      process StartInfo Arguments   string Format  -p   c   Users  Me  Desktop  mypdffile pdf     gdn02ptr006          process Start        process WaitForExit        Code above launches RawFilePrinter exe  similar to 2Printer exe   but with better support  It is not free  but by making donation allow you to use it everywhere and redistribute with your application  Latest version to download  http   bigdotsoftware pl rawfileprinter

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i wrote a very    little helper method around the adobereader to bulk-print pdf from c         public static bool Print string file  string printer         try           Process Start             Registry LocalMachine OpenSubKey                    SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion                       App Paths AcroRd32 exe   GetValue     ToString               string Format   h  t    0       1      file  printer            return true         catch          return false        one cannot rely on the return-value of the method btw

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Open  import  edit  merge  convert Acrobat PDF documents with a few lines of code using the intuitive API of Ultimate PDF  By using 100  managed code written in C   the component takes advantage of the numerous built-in features of the  NET Framework to enhance performance  Moreover  the library is CLS compliant  and it does not use any unsafe blocks for minimal permission requirements  The classes are fully documented with detailed example code which helps shorten your learning curve  If your development environment is Visual Studio  enjoy the full integration of the online documentation  Just mark or select a keyword and press F1 in your Visual Studio IDE  and the online documentation is represented instantly  A high-performance and reliable PDF library which lets you add PDF functionality to your  NET applications easily with a few lines of code    PDF Component for NET

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Another approach  if you simply wish to print a PDF file programmatically  is to use the LPR command  http   www microsoft com resources documentation windows xp all proddocs en-us lpr mspx mfr true  LPR is available on newer versions of Windows too  e g  Vista 7   but you need to enable it in the Optional Windows Components   For example   Process Start  LPR -S printerdnsalias -P raw C  files file pdf      You can also use the printer IP address instead of the alias   This assumes that your printer supports PDF Direct Printing otherwise this will only work for PostScript and ASCII files  Also  the printer needs to have a network interface installed and you need to know it s IP address or alias

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A very straight forward approach is to use an installed Adobe Reader or any other PDF viewer capable of printing   Process p   new Process     p StartInfo   new ProcessStartInfo          CreateNoWindow   true      Verb    print       FileName   path   put the correct path here    p Start       Another way is to use a third party component  e g  PDFView4NET

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Use PDFiumViewer  I searched for a long time till I came up with a similar solution  then I found this clean piece of code that does not rely on sending raw files to the printer  which is bad if they get interpreted as text files    or using Acrobat or Ghostscript as a helper  both would need to be installed  which is a hassle    https   stackoverflow com a 41751184 586754  PDFiumViewer comes via nuget  the code example above is complete  Pass in null values for using the default printer

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It is possible to use Ghostscript to read PDF files and print them to a named printer

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Looks like the usual suspects like pdfsharp and migradoc are not able to do that  pdfsharp only if you have Acrobat  Reader  installed    I found here  https   vishalsbsinha wordpress com 2014 05 06 how-to-programmatically-c-net-print-a-pdf-file-directly-to-the-printer   code ready for copy paste  It uses the default printer and from what I can see it doesn t even use any libraries  directly sending the pdf bytes to the printer  So I assume the printer also needs to support it  on one 10 year old printer I tested this it worked flawlessly   Most other approaches - without commercial libraries or applications - require you to draw yourself in the printing device context  Doable but will take a while to figure it out and make it work across printers

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It is also possible to do it with an embedded web browser  note however that since this might be a local file  and also because it is not actually the browser directly and there is no DOM so there is no ready state   Here is the code for the approach I worked out on a win form web browser control       private void button1 Click object sender  EventArgs e                webBrowser1 Navigate   path to file                 private void webBrowser1 Navigated object sender  WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e                     Progress Changed fires multiple times  however after the Navigated event it is fired only once            and at this point it is ready to print         webBrowser1 ProgressChanged     o  args    gt                         webBrowser1 Print     Note this does not print only brings up the print preview dialog               Should be on a separate task to ensure the main thread                can fully initialize the print dialog              Task Factory StartNew      gt                                 Thread Sleep 1000    We need to wait before we can send enter                   This assumes that the print preview is still in focus                 Action g        gt                                        SendKeys SendWait   ENTER                                        this Invoke g

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I had the same problem on printing a PDF file  There s a nuget package called Spire Pdf that s very simple to use  The free version has a limit of 10 pages although  however  in my case it was the best solution once I don t want to depend on Adobe Reader and I don t want to install any other components   https   www nuget org packages Spire PDF   PdfDocument pdfdocument   new PdfDocument    pdfdocument LoadFromFile pdfPathAndFileName   pdfdocument PrinterName    My Printer   pdfdocument PrintDocument PrinterSettings Copies   2  pdfdocument PrintDocument Print    pdfdocument Dispose

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It depends on what you are trying to print  You need a third party pdf printer application or if you are printing data of your own you can use report viewer in visual studio  It can output reports to excel and pdf -files

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The best way to print pdf automatically from C  is using printer s  direct pdf   You just need to copy the pdf file to printer s network sharename  The rest will be taken care by printer itself    The speed is 10 times faster than any other methods  However  the requirements are the printer model supporting for direct pdf printing and having at least 128 MB Dram which is easy for any modern printer

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If you have Adobe Reader installed  then you should be able to just set it as the default printer  And VOILA  You can print to PDF   printDocument1 PrinterSettings PrinterName    Adobe PDF   printDocument1 Print      Just as simple as that

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You can create the PDF document using PdfSharp  It is an open source  NET library   When trying to print the document it get worse  I have looked allover for a open source way of doing it  There are some ways do do it using AcroRd32 exe but it all depends on the version  and it cannot be done without acrobat reader staying open   I finally ended up using VintaSoftImaging NET SDK  It costs some money but is much cheaper than the alternative and it solves the problem really easy   var doc   new Vintasoft Imaging Print ImagePrintDocument   DocumentName     C  Test pdf     doc Print      That just prints to the default printer without showing  There are several alternatives and options

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I wrote and released a small Nuget Package which can be used to print a PDF file to a printerdriver  It can also print to a XPS file or PDF file  Here is a link to it

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