Printing PDF Document using C#

Ashutosh Mund

Hi,

I am facing an issue while printing number of PDF having multiple pages.

Using AcroRd32.exe to open the PDF and send print one by one.

The issue is for a larger PDF document in a batch, for a 9 page document it does not print after 3 page or 5 page. Also we have observed that no two acrord32.exe is open same time, so how can we deal with when many users are printing same time.

Here is the code :

public void PrintPDF(string tempPath, string PrinterName)

{

const string flagNoSplashScreen = "/s";

const string flagOpenMinimized = "/h";

var flagPrintFileToPrinter = string.Format("/t \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", tempPath, PrinterName);

var args = string.Format("{0} {1} {2}", flagNoSplashScreen, flagOpenMinimized, flagPrintFileToPrinter);

try

{

Process p = new Process();

p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

p.StartInfo.FileName = "D:\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe";

p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = true;

p.StartInfo.Arguments = args;

p.Start();

p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;

if (!p.WaitForExit(5000))

{

if (!p.HasExited)

{

p.Kill();

}

p.EnableRaisingEvents = true;

p.CloseMainWindow();

p.Close();

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

}

2 Replies

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Mohamed Abedallah9y ago
Accepted answer
Since you already tried using AcroRd32.exe to open and print your multipage PDF files on the fly, and you faced problems, I think you should consider using a programming toolkit that supports loading and printing PDF files like LEADTOOLS SDK. You can use LEADTOOLS RasterCodecs class to load the PDF files as raster images, and then print them using the RasterImagePrinter class in conjunction with the Microsoft PrintDocument class. This should provide you with full control over the printed pages and the quality of the printed images (pages).(Disclaimer: I work for the company that created this library).
You can find more details here:
https://www.leadtools.com/help/leadtools/v19/dh/wi/leadtools.winforms~leadtools.winforms.rasterimageprinter.html

Note that the SDK provides other solutions that can handle searchable PDF documents as text without the need for the rasterization process using the Document Viewer and conversion features.
Alex Smith9y ago
Try this

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Print-PDF-file-in-C-5b6e66b7