Help with imaging

[warchild69]

Hey Guru's
Got an intersting problem on hand.

Does any one have any idea how i can write a print driver to convert documents into images sort of a PDF style but it needs to be a image.

Reason i can use the available applications that print to images is because my system or "print driver" needs to kick off a process as soon as the document has compleated printing it also needs to create it's own filename etc and not prompt the user.
Yea i was thinking the same thing why can't they ask us to do simple development lol.

Please any help would be really appreciated.

 

[kulrom]

If i undersand your question you want to export the content to the image file and later send it to the printer. Correct me if i'm wrong I will help you anyway

Regards

 

[warchild69]

Hey Kulrom

Thats right, basically when you click on print i need to be able to set my app as a printer which then exports or prints to an image.

I need to kick off a proccess as soon as the document has written the image so if you could help me to print to image that would be 100%.


Reagrds

 

[kulrom]

You see, i know the language (vb.net) and stuff (i can do almost everything if i know what to do) but i'm afraid i still don't understand your question. If you don't mind please stop give additonal explanation and simply tell me what you intend there. Avoid everything like "I need to kick off a process as soon ... " ... with other words, do you want to get screen shot of the form and send it to printer or you want 1st to extract the content from controls (set up the position and look) and then send to the printer.
Please don't object me as i can be of help just in this way.

Regards

 

[warchild69]

Hi kulrom

Ok simply i need to convert documents to images.

That's it . . .

do you think it can be done ?

Regards,

 

[kulrom]

I don't think i know it can be done JK but, it really can be done !
Means you want to convert documents like a winWord, Excel, HTML etc. to be converted to an image ?
Something like this? http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm

Regards

 

[warchild69]

This is exactly what i need, do you know of any way to do it in .net

 

[kulrom]

As i said, everything is possible but i'm afraid it is not trivial at all. You would have to spend very much time to accomplish it from scratch
Getting screenshot of entire screen is peace of cake but extract only content ot certain document ... oh, it is beast i would say

Regards