More than anything else, my interest was to load any supported format into OpenOffice and then export it as PDF.
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Still, it promises much – you install OpenOffice, start it in Service mode, send commands over the API, and get to use any feature it provides. It seems that it has been around for quite some time, but as it is mainly targeted at Java developers, it is no wonder that there were no big fuss about it in C# groups. Ideaĭuring a talk with my friend Toni Ruža (who is primarily a Python developer) about a way to easily convert some WordML reports to PDF, he pointed me to the headless OpenOffice mode.
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But, for those who don’t want or simply can’t shell out over $1000 for a chance to convert other formats to PDF – I hope that this solution will prove as an attractive alternative.
NET 1.1 times – it is a pain to create PDFs.įor those of you who have access to components which can convert popular formats to PDF, this article is pretty much useless. Unfortunately, the situation with it and C# haven’t changed much in couple past years - if there were no new, fancy, priced components, I would conclude that it’s almost the same as it was in. Still, it somehow manages to wiggle in almost every project I'm on – clients want to send out documents, Word is bounded to Windows, HTML is lame, PDF it is. I must confess that I’m not a big fan of PDF. At the end of the article there is link to the instructions that will make code work with OpenOffice 3.
OpenOffice 2.4.1 was used during writing of article.
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