Re: Printing help

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I've been put on another project for a few day. You understand correctly what I wanted to do. I have a third-party com component that will append a pdf to another pdf so I can use that. We had hoped to avoid using it. Still a co-worker insists that Word will do this. When I get back on this project (probably next week) I'll insist he prove it to me.

Jialiang Ge [MSFT] wrote:
Hello CJ,

If the program is required to be designed as new letter + existing pdf = new pdf, we need to turn to some third party libraries or open source components (e.g. Gillard's links) for help because Microsoft does not have component to read&edit an existing pdf file.

But if the program can be designed as new letter + existing doc(x) template = new pdf, we can implement it with VB.NET + Microsoft Word 2007 (note: Microsoft Word 2003 and the previous do not have the function in its object model to export a document to pdf. This feature is new to Word 2007). Here is a step list of implementation for your reference.

Step1. Create a Word document with a bookmark "DearTitle" in the first line, followed by the same text for each customer.

Step2. Regarding your request of a small line along the right side of the page, I think we can place a Word line shape at the right position, and set is Text Wrapping to "In front of text" so that the line has a fixed position and does not interfere with the document body.

Step3. Save the document as a Word template (dotx)

Step4. Create a new VB.NET project in Visual Studio, prepare for Word automation, and write code to create a new document based on the dotx in step3.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316383/en-us
oWord.Documents.Add "<Path to your template>\MyTemplate.dot"

Step5. Automate Word to set the bookmark "DearTitle"'s text as customers' name ("Dear Mr. Smith")
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316383/en-us
oDoc.Bookmarks.Item("DearTitle").Range.Text = "Dear Mr. Smith"

Step6. Export the document to pdf
oDoc.ExportAsFixedFormat("d:\result.pdf", Word.WdExportFormat.wdExportFormatPDF)

CJ, please let me know whether this step list is helpful to you or not. If you have any other questions or concerns, DON'T hesitate to tell me.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge (jialge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, remove 'online.')
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