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I'm looking for a way to convert docx documents to pdf, on a system which doesn't has office installed. In the end, this is supposed to run as a service.

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There are bunches of free converters out there. Google Docs is one option. You can email documents to [email protected]. See also: http://lifehacker.com/353692/five-email-addresses-that-convert-documents

John K.
This is not what i'm looking for. I want to write it myself so I can run it as a service on AppFabric.
J. Vermeire
+2  A: 

See this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1537063/itextsharp-convert-word-doc-docx-to-pdf

The top answer says to use this component from Aspose.

Chris Lively
+1  A: 

There is:

  • the proprietary library PDFLib which we use at the company where i work
  • the free ITextSharp
  • ABCPdf from WebSuperGoo, which you can get a free license for, if you link back to them.
Luhmann
Those are indeed pretty usefull, but I already found those by googling myself. (I've been looking for a few days now).What I really need is library for converting existing doc(x) documents to pdf, not just a lib to create pdf's.Thanks for the effort anyways, it's very appreciated.
J. Vermeire