Printing to a pdf printer programmatically

Question

I am trying to print an existing file to PDF programmatically in Visual Basic 2008.

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Answer 1

If you are trying to hand generated the PDF (with and SDK or a PDF printer driver) it's not very easy. The PDF format reference is available from Adobe.

The problem is that the file is a mix of ASCII and tables that have binary offsets within the file to reference objects. It is an interesting format, and very extensible, but it is difficult to write a simple file.

It's doable if you need to. I looked at the examples in the Adobe PDF reference, hand typed them in and worked them over till I could get them to work as I needed. If you will be doing this a lot it might be worth it, otherwise look at an SDK.