C# printing

[Purrrfect]

Ok so, I have acrobat installed on my pc and if I open a text file in notepad I can print it and select Distiller and make a pdf. I'm trying to make a little program to do the same thing, by letting the user pick a folder that has text files in it. I'm fine with the little printer settings window popping up (for now), I just need a way to say 'take this list of txt files and make pdfs, NAO!' How do I just print like a basic windows app?

edit: Sort of got it by mangling a MS example, but not very happy with it. Drops all the files to the desktop by default. >.>

[Senoska]

If I understand your problem, you're able to print but not select a list of files? If so:

Use the OpenFileDialog and set the Multiple File setting to true. This will return an array of files to print.
If you're looking for directory support, use the FolderBrowserDialog component and loop through the Files. You can also use DirectoryInfo to get the files and then print the them.

Let me know if this helps.

[Purrrfect]

I already had an arraylist I was going through with all of the files to print, the key was getting them to print to a specific folder/filename w/o needing the user. Fortunately I was just printing text files and found a library on codeproject that someone made to make pdfs from text files. Worked well and waaaaay faster than waiting for distiller to do stuff.

[Senoska]

Why are you turning things into PDF's before you print them? See this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996472

All you need to do is make a print class and then loop through your text file's and send them to the printer. I'm not sure where the extra steps are coming in at.

[Purrrfect]

That is a nice link, looks like a lot of good stuff there. Unfortunately the people at work have problems when ANYTHING is changed or improved. So since they have always gone to folder X and print whatever pdfs are there, that is all they can handle. Really the project was just to save some time for other IS people that have been making these pdfs from inside a program that is very shitty to use and takes them way longer than it should, but the program automatically makes these text files so I just made something to convert them and keep the production people happy.

[Senoska]

So were you printing to pdf or printing to the printer?

[Purrrfect]

PDF

[Senoska]

Oh that makes more sense. What did you end up solving this with?

[Purrrfect]

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphi...texttopdf.aspx with a couple tweaks just to add some info at the beginning of the file. Worked very well, though I did come across an interesting issue where if a '1' was printed in the very first position on the page it would insert a blank page. I guess acrobat interpreted that differently than expected.