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SharpAffair
SharpAffair

Reputation: 5478

Generate PDF thumbnails in .NET without full Acrobat installed

I've seen various methods for generating thumbnails of PDF files in .NET, but unfortunately all of them require full version of Acrobat installed. Is there a way for getting them with free Adobe Reader or any other way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 825

Answers (3)

Andrew Cash
Andrew Cash

Reputation: 2394

You need a PDF to TIFF or JPEG or BMP conversion. Using a commercial library allow you to many other things with your PDF's.

You could try either of these commercial approaches

http://www.informatik.com/tiff2pdf.html or http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/ or
http://www.expert-tools.com/ENGLISH/index.html or http://www.amyuni.com/en/developer/pdfcreator/features.html

Upvotes: 2

Aseem Kishore
Aseem Kishore

Reputation: 10878

I find Ghostscript to be just great, and it's free! For Windows, it comes as just a simple .dll and .exe, which you can programmatically launch from C#.

Upvotes: 2

Dmitry Karpezo
Dmitry Karpezo

Reputation: 1058

The only way I know is to load .pdf into readers' hidden ActiveX and then make screenshoots of reader's control. It look weird (and it is weird) -- but it works.

P.S. Or use third-part components.

Upvotes: 1

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