I'm currently using IFilters to extract text from various file (word, excel, tiff, pdf etc). I understand that IFilters have been discontinued with Windows 8. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to extract text without the native apps being installed? If it's any use I'm using C# and .Net 4
IFilter is not discontinued. Only the Windows Indexing Service is discontinued in favor of Windows Search or Microsoft Search Server. Both continue to use IFilters.
According to this documentation, the main point of compatibility for IFilters going forward are that they support the IPersistStream interface. All modern implementations should avoid requiring IPersistStorage, so they don't have to access the disk themselves.
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I created web application using ASP.NET CORE 2 and used DinkToPdf to create and download the PDF to target directory. It is working really well to create and save PDFs. Now I want to use server side and print the PDF to target printer in the office. I couldn't find any solution to do this. Please help me.
Are you looking to integrate this functionality into your software? If so, there are several PDF libraries on the market with printing capabilities, some more reliable and full-featured than others.
If you're looking for a Windows command line utility to print PDFs to a target printer, you may be interested in PDF2PRINT, which allows you to do exactly that, as well as set optional parameters like duplex, collation, custom page ranges, number of copies, etc.
For future reference, questions like these should be posted in the Software Recommendations forum.
I am trying to read/write to a word (.docx) in a W8 metro app. For normal .NET Applications there are many libraries, but non of them are avaliable for Windows Store apps (e.g. Open XML SDK 2.5 is not supported in RT Apps).
The only way, it might work is via the xml document using Windows.Data.Xml.Dom which is going to be a lot of work. Has anyone accessed word documents with the Windows.Data.Xml.Dom (or any other library) and would like to share his code?
I don't have any first hand experience, but I'd take a look at the following two alternatives before falling back to raw XML processing:
Your best bet could be DocIO from Syncfusion. It's not free but the price is really reasonable considering how much work it could save you. And there's even a free beta available.
Chris Klug created a simple OpenXML library for Silverlight. You could check if it does what you need and then try porting it to WinRT since the source is available.
I'm wondering how can I change the font (+ color and some font style) for the whole word document (excluding the page headers, if it's possible) by using C# ?
If You know any libraries (also commercial) feel free to let me know.
(After changing the font, I'll convert that word document to PDF using ABCPdf)
Depending on the library you would loop through the content (Pages/Paragraphs etc.) and change whatever font attribute you want...
Since you don't say which type of application you build - in case it is a pure desktop application and Word is guranteed to be installed locally you can use Office Interop. BEWARE that Office Interop is NOT supported by MS in server-scenarios (like IIS, ASP.NET. Windows Service, WCF etc.).
IF Word is not guaranteed to be installed and/or your application is not a desktop application and your Word documents are always DOCX files you could use OpenXML SDK V 2 from MS (free).
Otherwise I can recommend Aspose.Words (commercial) - works with old DOC and current DOCX and is usable in any type of application (desktop, ASP.NET, Windows Service etc.).
Handling Office documents in .NET is a quite straight forward task. Have a look at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, it is pretty well documented. Here is another link on to how you can change a word document font style using .NET (the example is in VB but is easily convertible to C#)
Start by reading on Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word
(You can google some user-friendly examples, there are tons)
Later on, read about Text Formatting
Easy, isn't it?
I'm writing a program that will (among other things) print out labels with variable information. I want to be able to format these labels (preferably in a GUI) at design-time, then have them print out at runtime. What tools/languages/projects can I use to accomplish this?
The label needs to include text and also Code39 or Code128 barcodes.
Printing will be done on a normal default printer, or possibly a label printer, unknown at this time.
Preference is for open-source, free projects, but any suggestions are appreciated. I'd also like to be able to distribute the program through xcopy, meaning no separate installations needed on the client.
EDIT: I'm now trying to do this using Microsoft Reporting services in local mode, but I'm still having problems getting the barcode to be readable.
There is a simple walkthrough of using our programmable ActiveReports product to do this here. Once you design the labels you can get them in PDF or print them directly (among other things). Another example of using ActiveReports to create a label maker program is here. That one uses the ActiveX/COM edition of ActiveReports but the concepts are still the same in the C#/.NET version.
We also provide a product named Data Dynamics Reports that uses a page-based metaphore for designing reports rather than the banded metephore like ActiveReports. It includes a label wizard which you can find out more about at this link.
Scott Willeke
GrapeCity inc.
Using Microsoft Reporting Services I can use a local report. Its not xcopy, but it is free and relatively easy. I just have to install report viewer on the client (and the barcode font), then I can even run the .exe from a network share.
I want to display and edit MS Excel File from client side using ActiveX COM object. The user would be allowed to edit the file and save it to local PC. Then It can be uploaded to remote server.
So, can you give me some example of displaying Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc document in Internet Explorer 8.0 using COM. I could not find such ocx files for that purpose . Can you help me finding it.
Thanks
Maksud
I think those controls would violate the MS Office distribution or EULA licensing agreements with Microsoft. Since an ActiveX control that emulates Word, Excel, PowerPoint would potentially give unlimited and anonymous users access to the software without paying for it. There's other Microsoft technologies that allow you to leverage the end-user's MS Offices licenses that allow them to save back to the web server. I think WebDAV used to be used (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781730%28WS.10%29.aspx), I don't know what's out there now, but I'm sure there's a solution.
I wonder if the use of Google Docs would solve these issues. I'm pretty sure there's a way to leverage some sort of mix of Google Docs and the associated APIs to do something akin to what you are trying to do. I admit this isn't quite a perfect match for your goals.
This sounds like a use case that Office Live Workspace was created for. It's free, it's collaborative, and it allows you to determine sharing permissions.