Question Convert word to PDF without offce or openoffice

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my question is whether you can convert Word documents to pdf using c # without having to install Office on the server

Posted 5-Apr-13 8:31am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-04-05T08:43:00

Instead of Office interop assemblies which require Office to be installed, you can use Open XML SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30425[^].

This way, you can support new XML-based Office formats (such as .DOCX, .XLSX), ECMA-376 standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML[^].

This is another option: http://npoi.codeplex.com/[^].

To work with PDF, you can use iText, or its .NET port, iTextSharp:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IText[^],
http://itextpdf.com/[^],
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/[^].

In included the reference to Java iText site as well, because most documentation is there. If you understand C#, it would not be difficult to understand Java-bases API documentation.

—SA