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Re: create pdf or word file from within c#

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Sep 28th, 2007

@ hollystyles

firstly thank you. although it is a bit to soon to speak, i believe that you have provided a solution.

i of course have to learn the arcane formatting but i believe that it cannot be more difficult than learning html.

just to be sure. csharp can do rtf and rtf has special formatting which i can learn from the link you posted and then the rtf file can be opened from word? if that is so then i believe you have helped me a lot.

about the other links. i did look at them but they were not very practical. couple of years and 2007 was just not an option. but thank you for your help. i believe the last link is just what i need. i really appreciate it.

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Re: create pdf or word file from within c#

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csharp can do rtf and rtf has special formatting which i can learn from the link you posted and then the rtf file can be opened from word?

Ok just to split hairs. C# is just a language, the .NET framework has classes that can write text to the filesystem. RTF is text. So yes you can programitically create RTF files by programing the .NET framework using C# syntax as demonstrated yes.

Finally, yes Microsoft Word can open RTF files.

Best of luck with your solution. If you get stuck come back to this thread any time.

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Re: create pdf or word file from within c#

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Sep 29th, 2007

Hi,
I like the information in this thread. Like me friend in Australia I prefer to generate the pdf by myself, Now, Does anybody know how to generate 2D (Two Dimensions) bar code, like the one use by Fedex or UPS.

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Re: create pdf or word file from within c#

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Oct 28th, 2007

Just a suggestion - I code stuff that puts data into MS Office apps - PowerPoint, Excel and Word. You are better of doing it with VB then C#. We do all processing in C# and then use VB to create the documents at the end. With Word this does the table:

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  Dim trange As Word.Range = _wordDocument.Paragraphs.Item(ParagraphCount()).Range
_wordDocument.Tables.Add(trange, row, col)
  Dim trange As Word.Range = _wordDocument.Paragraphs.Item(ParagraphCount()).Range
_wordDocument.Tables.Add(trange, row, col)

Then you can literaly go cell by cell to edit the values

This inserts and formats paragraph of text

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With _wordDocument.Range.Paragraphs.Item(ParagraphCount()).Range
    .Text = "This is a simple text to be added as paragraph"
    .Font.Size = presOptions.FontSize
    .Font.Name = presOptions.FontFamily
    .Font.Italic = presOptions.Italic
    .Font.Bold = presOptions.Bold
    .Font.Underline = presOptions.Underlined
    .Font.Color = RGB(r, g, b)
    .Paragraphs.Alignment = alignment
End With
With _wordDocument.Range.Paragraphs.Item(ParagraphCount()).Range
    .Text = "This is a simple text to be added as paragraph"
    .Font.Size = presOptions.FontSize
    .Font.Name = presOptions.FontFamily
    .Font.Italic = presOptions.Italic
    .Font.Bold = presOptions.Bold
    .Font.Underline = presOptions.Underlined
    .Font.Color = RGB(r, g, b)
    .Paragraphs.Alignment = alignment
End With

in the above, pres options is not something I am willing to discuss in details but basically user's settings regarding formatting.

I am a big fan of C# but with office related stuff, VB is much easier. As far as PDF conversion goes - I did this by implementing someone else's libraries, I think it costed us something like $5000.00 for an unlilmited development licence, but saved me tons of work.

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can you repeat the part of the stuff where you said all about the things?