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How to generate PDF report starting from Word document?

Platform: WPF |
Control: DocIO

You can generate PDF report starting from Word document by using Essential DocIO and Essential PDF. Below steps need to be followed,

  • Create a Word document from scratch
  • Perform Mail merge
  • Convert the Word document to PDF

For more information about the required assemblies, please refer our UG documentation page.

Step 1: Create a Word document from scratch

Create template Word document with merge fields using Essential DocIO.

The following code example shows how to create a Word document template with merge fields.

C#

// Creates a new instance of Word document
WordDocument document = new WordDocument();
// Adds one section and one paragraph to the document
document.EnsureMinimal();
// Sets page margins to the last section of the document
document.LastSection.PageSetup.Margins.All = 72;
// Appends text to the last paragraph
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Emp_Id: ");
// Appends merge field to the last paragraph
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("Emp_Id", FieldType.FieldMergeField);
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("\nName: ");
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("Name", FieldType.FieldMergeField);
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("\nPhone: ");
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("Phone", FieldType.FieldMergeField);
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("\nCity: ");
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("City", FieldType.FieldMergeField);
// Saves and closes the WordDocument instance.
document.Save("Template.docx");
document.Close();

 

VB

' Creates an instance of a WordDocument
Dim document As New WordDocument()
' Adds one section and one paragraph to the document
document.EnsureMinimal()
' Sets page margins to the last section of the document
document.LastSection.PageSetup.Margins.All = 72
' Appends text to the last paragraph.
document.LastParagraph.AppendText("Emp_Id: ")
' Appends merge field to the last paragraph
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("Emp_Id", FieldType.FieldMergeField)
document.LastParagraph.AppendText(vbLf & "Name: ")
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("Name", FieldType.FieldMergeField)
document.LastParagraph.AppendText(vbLf & "Phone: ")
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("Phone", FieldType.FieldMergeField)
document.LastParagraph.AppendText(vbLf & "City: ")
document.LastParagraph.AppendField("City", FieldType.FieldMergeField)
' Saves and closes the WordDocument instance.
document.Save("Template.docx")
document.Close()

 

The generated template document looks as follows.

Template Word document

Step 2: Perform Mail merge

The Mail merge operation replaces the matching merge fields with the respective data.

The following code example shows how to perform a simple Mail merge in the generated template document with string array as data source.

C#

// Opens the template document
WordDocument document = new WordDocument("Template.docx");
// Gets the data for Mail merge
string[] fieldNames = new string[] { "Emp_Id", "Name", "Phone", "City" };
string[] fieldValues = new string[] { "1001", "Peter", "+122-2222222", "London" };
// Performs the Mail merge
document.MailMerge.Execute(fieldNames, fieldValues);
// Saves and closes the WordDocument instance.
document.Save("WordReport.docx");
document.Close();

 

VB

' Opens the template document
Dim document As New WordDocument("Template.docx")
' Gets the data for Mail merge
Dim fieldNames As String() = New String() {"Emp_Id", "Name", "Phone", "City"}
Dim fieldValues As String() = New String() {"1001", "Peter", "+122-2222222", "London"}
' Performs the Mail merge
document.MailMerge.Execute(fieldNames, fieldValues)
' Saves and closes the WordDocument instance.
document.Save("WordReport.docx")
document.Close()

 

The resultant document looks as follows.

DocIO generated Word document

Step 3: Convert the Word document to PDF

The following code example illustrates how to convert a Word document into PDF document.

C#

// Opens the template document
WordDocument document = new WordDocument("WordReport.docx");
// Creates an instance of the DocToPDFConverter
DocToPDFConverter converter = new DocToPDFConverter();
// Converts Word document to PDF document
PdfDocument pdfDocument = converter.ConvertToPDF(document);
// Saves the report as PDF document
pdfDocument.Save("PDFReport.pdf");
// Closes the instance of PDF document object
pdfDocument.Close(true);
// Closes the instance of Word document object
document.Close();

 

VB

' Opens the template document
Dim document As New WordDocument("WordReport.docx")
' Creates an instance of the DocToPDFConverter
Dim converter As New DocToPDFConverter()
' Converts Word document into PDF document
Dim pdfDocument As PdfDocument = converter.ConvertToPDF(document)
' Saves the report as PDF document
pdfDocument.Save("PDFReport.pdf")
' Closes the instance of PDF document object
pdfDocument.Close(True)
' Closes the instance of Word document object
document.Close()

 

The generated PDF report looks as follows.

DocIO generated PDF report

The following simple sample with complete code snippets demonstrates on how to generate PDF report starting from Word document using Essential DocIO and PDF.

Sample

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Feb 17, 2018

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Apr 23, 2019

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Apr 23, 2019

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