I've got some information I would like to output to a printer, but also as a PDF. I would be great if the PDF and the printing output would look the same. As what I understand, PDF reading and creating is not supported in C#.
I can create PDF's easily with external librarys like iTextSharp, but I don't know how to print them without using a different application, like Adobe Acrobat.
What are my options?
In WPF there's PDF viewer controls. I'm not sure if you're using WPF, but if you want to view PDF's inside your own app, this could be a solution. Have a look at this.
Sending a PDF directly to a printer requires a library to interpret the PDF,YOu can probably use Acrobat directly, but something like GhostScript will be more efficient.
You may consider using a 3rd party PDF printer driver; such as PDFCreator, or CutePDF.
CutePDF has a royalty-free developer version (for purchase) with programmatic access via the Registry.
The only other option that I've come across is using MigraDOC + PDFSharp, but you must author the document via MigraDOC / PDFSharp directly, it can't be a "pre-made" PrintDocument.
Like, you need to use report generator like Crystal, FastReport.net, MS RS.
So - you can create you document in report generator, print it from native report generator format and convert it to PDF. In FastReport you'll receive wysiwyg PDF (as in report). I can not say something about other reporting tools.