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I need an easy way to show different document-types (.doc, .xls, .jpg...) in webpages. Ideally a user prints or saves that document and that document is automatically converted to Adobe-Flash.

I know there are existing solutions to this. However, I would like to implement them in my own application, written in C#.

Can anyone point me in a direction how to write a "Printer" in C#, where printable documents can be printed to, and that outputs a SWF-File?

Thanks, Reinhard

I don't know if this is quite what you're looking for, but have you seen iText for .NET?

http://www.ujihara.jp/iTextdotNET/en/

kmontgom 2010-04-03 14:02:50

Actually, there's probably a better link:http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/

kmontgom 2010-04-03 14:04:58

From what I saw at a quick look, this library can be usefull for creating PDF from C#.However, I am looking for a way to convert EXISTING PFDs, DOCs..etc.. to Adobe-FLASH

Reinhard 2010-04-05 14:22:33

Then you may want to look at SWFTOOLS (http://www.swftools.org/about.html); they advertise a program to convert PDF to SWF.It does not look like it is a library, so you will have to "shell out" from C#/.NET to execute it, but it looks promising.

kmontgom 2010-04-05 17:46:23

An idea would be convert all files to 2 formats: ideally PDF for printing and jpeg for viewing in flash. There are ways to convert most documents to PDF, printing from PDF will be optimal and enable you to get from .doc to jpeg.

GhostScript is a PDF interpretter that can convert PDF to jpeg. Its open source.

There are also fully managed .Net commercial components that can convert PDF to Jpg. Search for "Tall Components PDF"

Mark Redman 2010-04-03 18:35:08

That is one way I could take... print to a PDF-File.But then... How do I convert a PDF to FLASH or SILVERLIGHT - I want to show the contents in a webpage

Reinhard 2010-04-05 14:24:09

You need to convert each page to a format that flash or silverlight can display, most probably jpg and load in the pages dynamically. You will need to build the interface to display the images, slideshow, single page view or replicate an acrobat style interface etc.

Mark Redman 2010-04-05 14:55:06

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