Is it possible to add PCL commands such as duplex printing "?&l1S" to a PDF document?
The same can be done in Word via the print field but I could find the same for PDF anywhere online.
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I am looking for the method (of Word ole-object) which can open pdf in the Microsoft Word.
I want to copy all pages of pdf into doc/docx and add there footers.
Could anybody give the cue how to import pdf?
PS: any sample code for this problem would be great.
Thanks,
Lilya
You need OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine for converting PDF to document. PDF is generic format and it can include text as image. So it is very hard to convert PDF to document. SAP hasn't got any OCR function for doing this. Maybe OpenText (if customer using it) has this functionality, I haven't got detail information about opentext. You need third party tools for this. You can use online services or command line utilities to converting PDF files to text files easelly if PDF included text, otherwise you need professional SDKs (for example Abbyy Finereader) for doing this.
I used FoxIT PDF Reader to save the PDF file into text file and make a macro to read the text file. Of course, by doing so, you can only get the text, but nothing else.
I do not understand how to use the microsoft print to pdf in order to print a specific pdf file, and save it (using the microsoft print to pdf) as another pdf file.
I searched and found this issue:
How to programmatically print to PDF file without prompting for filename in C# using the Microsoft Print To PDF printer that comes with Windows 10
however, i do not understand where is the input pdf (i.e - the file to be printed).
I guess that's something very basic that I am searching... help will be much appreciated!
Windows 10 includes native support for creating PDF files using Microsoft Print to PDF, a virtual printer.
ie; We can print to PDF or Save as PDF file in Windows 10 without installing any third party software.
Find below the step-by-step process to print to PDF.
Open the file you want to print to PDF and right click on it or open the Print menu (Ctrl +P) and select the ‘Print’ option.
Now you will get an option to select the Printer from a list of installed printers. Find and select ‘Microsoft Print to PDF‘ and click on ‘Print‘ button.
You will get an option to choose the location and click ‘OK’ to save the file. The file is saved as a brand new PDF document.
How to Enable and Activate the Print to PDF Feature on Windows 10
If Microsoft Print to PDF option is missing from the list of printers (Select Printer Option), you can Enable Microsoft Print to PDF Printer easily using any of the following methods.
Enable Microsoft Print to PDF on Windows Settings Page
Add a Printer through Devices and Printers in Control Panel
Enable Print to PDF from Windows Features
Check this Post: https://admeonline.com/how-to-print-to-pdf-in-windows-10-save-as-pdf-printer/
I am trying to print a section of an existing pdf to a new pdf. The original is searchable and selectable but the new pdf cannot do either. I am using "adobe acrobat reader DC" and print via "Microsoft Print to PDF". Unsure if there is any other relevant information.
After searching for a period of time I could not find an answer that allows for direct PDF to PDF print.
I did find a workaround however.
I downloaded a free software called PrimoPDF. Once installed, PrimoPDF becomes a printer option within Adobe acrobat reader. I then selected my desired pages and printed to PrimoPDf instead of Microsoft Print to PDF. This Generated a .ps file. I then imported the .ps file into PrimoPDF application and was able to generate a .pdf from that. The newly generated pdf was searchable and selectable and exactly what I needed.
Hopefully someone else finds this useful in the future.
Generally refrying (printing to PostScript then converting back to PDF) is a bad idea. The reason that Microsoft Print to PDF created a file that wasn't searchable is because when Adobe Reader detects that the printer it is targeting isn't capable of rendering the PDF correctly because of any number of reasons, like it doesn't have the right fonts for example, it will render the PDF itself and send an image to the printer. A simpler PDF probably would have worked just fine.
You are much better off getting a tool that will simply allow you to extract the pages you need to a new file rather than printing.
I'm converting WORD docs to PDF programmatically using vb.net and ghostscript. This word doc I’m having problems with has hyperlinks to external URLs and also hyperlinks to bookmarks within the document. When the doc is converted to PDF the external URLs work but the links to the bookmarks do not.
I have searched for a solution to get these bookmarks to work on the output PDF but haven’t had any luck. Hopefully someone has done this and can share the solution.
Ghostscript only handles PDF or PostScript as an input, there are sibling products to handle XPS and PCL as well but none of them handle Word .doc files. So you must be converting the Word file into something else.
I'll hazard a guess that you are using the Windows PostScript printer driver to convert to PostScript and passing that to GS (possibly via the RedMon Port Monitor) to convert into PDF.
Now PostScript doesn't support hyperlinks, bookmarks, or any of the other paraphernalia of a viewing application, since its intended as a print language. To overcome this Adobe introduced an extension, the pdfmark operator, which can be used to create this kind of information. NOTE this is an extension which is only supported for conversion to PDF.
So, in order to get these inserted, you need to create pdfmarks in the PostScript. If you are printing from Word, this means that you have to insert PostScript into the file when printing. There is a 'pass through' mechanism for this purpose.
So what you need to do is create the appropriate Visual Basic script in Word which inserts the relevant pdfmarks when the document is printed. This is how the Adobe plug-in for Word (which used to be called PDFMaker a long time ago) works.
Have a look at this tool.
It does maintain bookmarks and hyperlinks.
http://www.transcom.de/transcom/en/2004_pdf-t-maker.htm
i would like to display a pdf on my winform and am thinking of using of those tools in my vb.net application. does anyone know the difference between the two?
Microsoft Report Viewer reads report definition files and displays the report. Adobe's PDF reader displays PDF files.
Report definition files != PDF files, so you would need to make sure that you use the right tool for the right job. If you need to read PDFs, use a PDF reader.
As for consuming a PDF on a WinForm, you could host a WebBrowser control and point to the PDF. Alternately, there are several WinForm control manufacturers that read and display a PDF file (though I've not used any of them so would not be able to recommend one over another). Examples would be:
http://www.tallcomponents.com/
http://www.skysof.com/