Convert Text file to PDF format/file

Question

Hi

I looked to this blog where I can get an idea to convert a text file to a pdf file, but failed to create the instance of Document and PDF writer classes.

Any idea? I am using windows form application - C#

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/10025/

if you can help with any piece of code which convert a text file to pdf this would be great. Thank

Slavica Matijevi · Answer

Hi Eline here is something that I use: var document = DocumentModel.Load(Sample.txt LoadOptions.TxtDefault); document.Save(Sample.pdf SaveOptions.PdfDefault); You need to add reference to this Word library written in C# . Also here is another sample how you can generate your PDF file in .NET .

Eline Sami · Answer

Hi Well I used PdfSharp libraries and used the following codes. But I have a problem. Although the code reads all the lines in the text file but the pdf file which is created then contains only one page! Which piece of code I need to change or might add another code to add pages as much as there is contents in the text file? The Text file that I have might contains many rows and if you convert to pdf it might be around 5-10 pages or even more. private static void ConvertToPDF() { try { string line = null; //a Text Reader Object to read the text from Text file. System.IO.TextReader readFile = new StreamReader(file); int yPoint = 0; //create a PDF Object and a Page Object. PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument(); PdfPage pdfPage = pdf.AddPage(); //Also initialize the Graphics and Font XGraphics graph = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(pdfPage); XFont font = new XFont(Lucida Console 10 XFontStyle.Regular); //Now the PDF Object is ready to write the contents so the next step is to read the content from the Text file and write to the PDF . while (true) { line = readFile.ReadLine(); if (line == null) { break; } else { graph.DrawString(line font XBrushes.Black new XRect(20 yPoint pdfPage.Width.Point pdfPage.Height.Point) XStringFormats.TopLeft); yPoint = yPoint + 20; } } //After read all the line from Txt file you can save the PDF file with your desired name with .pdf extension. string pdfFilename = myPDF.pdf; pdf.Save(pdfFilename); //Then close the Reader Object. readFile.Close(); readFile = null; Process.Start(pdfFilename); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString()); } }

Alex Smith · Answer

[quote] Do I need to add references? if yes from where? [/quote] Yes of course. This reference is availabe by this link : http://www.e-iceblue.com/Download/download-pdf-for-net-now.html You can download the package version 3.1.9 and have a test..

Eline Sami · Answer

Hi Ankur Also I cannot use using Spire.Pdf; using Spire.Pdf.Graphics; using Spire.Pdf.Graphics.Fonts; namespace text_to_pdf Do I need to add references? if yes from where?

Ankur Jain · Answer

Hi! try this... using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Text; using System.IO; using Spire.Pdf; using Spire.Pdf.Graphics; using Spire.Pdf.Graphics.Fonts; namespace text_to_pdf { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { // create a new PDF PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument(); //set PDF text format and load the .txt file from system DrawText(doc.Sections.Add()); //save the .txt as PDF doc.SaveToFile(result.pdf); doc.Close(); System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(result.pdf); } private static void DrawText(PdfSection section) { PdfPageBase page = section.Pages.Add(); PdfFont font = new PdfFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica 11); PdfStringFormat format = new PdfStringFormat(); format.LineSpacing = 20f; float pageWidth = page.Canvas.ClientSize.Width; PdfBrush brush = PdfBrushes.DeepSkyBlue; float y = 30; string text = File.ReadAllText(@..\..	est.txt); PdfStringLayouter textLayouter = new PdfStringLayouter(); PdfStringLayoutResult result = textLayouter.Layout(text font format new SizeF(pageWidth 0)); foreach (LineInfo line in result.Lines) { page.Canvas.DrawString(line.Text font brush 0 y format); y = y + result.LineHeight; } } } } please mark it as answer if its helpful..