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Sometime, we need to convert printable files to PDF for printing, long time preserving or others by self-developed applications like ERP.  In this article, I will share a method of creating PDF from printable PDF file and then send output PDF directly by C#. The software I will is named as VeryDOC Doc Converter COM, by which you can convert files of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JPG, PNG, GIF, HTML and others to PDF by script together with other application like VB, VC, C# etc. Please check more detail information on homepage, in the following part, I will show you how to use this software.

Step 1. Free download and install Doc Converter COM

• Please download and install PDFcamp Printer v2.3 or PDFcamp Printer Pro v2.3, and then download DocConverter COM from our website.
• Please unzip "doc2pdf_com_trial.zip" package to a folder, and run "install_as_exe.bat" file to install the DocConverter COM into your system
• Then you can run HTML2PDF.exe from command line to try, HTML2PDF.exe is a Windows Command Line Tool, you can run it from command line window,For example:html2pdf.exe "http://www.yahoo.com" "C:\yahoo.pdf".

Step 2. Create PDF from printable file and then send output PDF by email directly.

• When you need to call this COM software together with  other applications like C#, please refer to the following command line templates.
• The following command line template can help you convert .doc, .xls, .html, .txt, .rtf etc files to PDF files, but it will popup a print dialog when conversion, this is a global function, you need set any value before you call it,
  Private Sub Word2PDF_ShellPrint_Click()
      Set PdfCreator = New PDFOUTLib.PdfCreator
      PdfCreator.Word2PDF "C:\sample.doc", "C:\sample.doc.pdf"
      Debug.Print "C:\sample.doc -->C:\sample.doc.pdf"
      MsgBox "Word2PDF_ShellPrint finished"
      Set PdfCreator = Nothing
  End Sub
• When you need to send output PDF file to some body by email directly, please refer to the following command line templates. After create a PDF file and send it from your mail client, For Example,
          Set PdfCreator = New PDFOUTLib.PdfCreator
          PdfCreator.HTML2PDF = "C:\sample.html"
          PdfCreator.FileName = "C:\sample.pdf"
          PdfCreator.HeadersFooters = "off"
          PdfCreator.paperType = 6 '//7 is A4 paper, 6 is A3 paper
          PdfCreator.subject = "I can control the subject this way"
          PdfCreator.body = "And I can control the body too"
          PdfCreator.SendEmail
          While PdfCreator.StillRunning = 1
              DoEvents
              Call WaitMessage
          Wend
          Set PdfCreator = Nothing

There are too many functions of this software, I can not list all of them here. If you need to know more functions of this software, please visit homepage or User Manual of Doc Converter COM Component. During the using, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.

   When you need to create PDF from any printable files like MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, RTF, TXT, image, HTML, etc by some COM version software, software VeryDOC Doc Converter COM is a good choice. This software was developed for developers with some DLL Library, or Command Line, which enables you to call it together with Visual Basic, C/C++, Delphi, ASP, PHP, C#, .NET, etc. Please check more information on homepage, in the following part, let us check how to use this software.

Step 1. Download Doc Converter COM

When you use this software, please make sure you have the following software installed in your computer or else the conversion may fail.

• PDFcamp V1.8 or newer, or PDFcamp Pro V1.8 or newer
• Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and 7
• Windows Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer
• Microsoft Office 97 or newer(when converting Office file to PDF)

When downloading finishes, it is a zip file. Please extract it to some folder then you can call it together with other applications.

Step 2. Create PDF from any printable files.

• When you use this software, please refer to the usage and templates of this software.
• Here I will share some code of creating PDF from online website together with PHP application.

How do I call DocConverter COM from PHP code?
A: Some examples for call DocConverter COM Service from PHP code:
Example 1:
                <?php
                        $url = "http://www.verypdf.com";
                        $path = "C:\\test.pdf";
                        $com = new COM("PdfOut.PdfCreator");
                        $com->html2PDF = $url;
                        $com->fileName = $path;
                        $com->Doc2PDFViaSocket();
                ?>
Example 2:
                <?php
                        $PdfCreator =new COM("PdfOut.PdfCreator") or die("Cannot start PdfCreator");
                        $PdfCreator->Doc2PDFCommandLine(' "c:\input.doc" "c:\output.pdf" ');
                        $PdfCreator = null;
                ?>
Example 3:
                <?php
                        $url = "http://www.verypdf.com";
                        $path = "C:\\test.pdf";
                        $com = new COM("PdfOut.PdfCreator");
                        $com->Doc2PDFCommandLine("\"$url\" \"$path\" \"paperType=0,PrintHTMLBackground=yes,overwrite=yes\"");
                ?>

By this software, you can also fulfill the following functions:

• When creating PDF from HTML file, you can set input document filename or a URL point to a website. You also can set input content from a buffer, this function only can work for a html stream,please notice, you can't use "html2PDF" and "htmlBuffer" in one time.
• Set page header in the PDF file, it only available when "headersFooters" equal "on".
• Set page footer in the PDF file, it only available when "headersFooters" equal "on".
• When creating PDF, you can also specify the page type like the followings:

Set page type, the value is from 0 to 9,
    0 "Letter [8.5 x 11 in]",
    1 "Legal [8.5 x 14 in]",
    2 "Executive [7.25 x 10.5 in]",
    3 "Ledger [355.6 x 215.9 mm]",
    4 "Tabloid [11 x 17 in]",
    5 "Screen [10 x 7.5 in]",
    6 "A3 [297 x 420 mm]",
    7 "A4 [210 x 297 mm]",
    8 "A5 [148 x 210 mm]",
    9 Custom page size

There are two many functions and examples of this software, I can not list all of here. During the using, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.