Printing a list of PDFs in memory

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Hi Everyone,

This question hopefully wont be as detailed as my other posts as my question is fairly simple.

I have list of Byte arrays, which are delivered by a report server. These arrays are PDFs. I want to be able to print these PDFs using an application that the user can start off and gives feedback of the progress.

What I can already do

Using the Process class start a PDF reader which loads a PDF file and doesn't display a window.

What I can't do
- Print the PDF document. After some research I have found out that to pass command line arguments to a program that needs to have an entry in the registry which then specifies the behaviour of the program given certain arguments.
  - Convert a Byte array into a PDF document. I suspect that this may be a great deal harder then first anticipated.
    
    Many thanks
    
    Laurence

Posted 15-Jul-11 3:56am

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Laurence1234 15-Jul-11 10:00am

I realise the formatting is horrible. It was correct when I wrote it, then when I uploaded it it went like this. I can't seem to edit it back for some reason.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2011-07-15T04:31:00

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"After some research I have found out that to pass command line arguments to a program that needs to have an entry in the registry which then specifies the behaviour of the program given certain arguments."

Since when?

ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo("MyApp", "My Arguments list /p");
Process.Start(psi);

The program needs to be installed, yes. Otherwise Windows doesn't know where to find it.

Posted 15-Jul-11 4:31am

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Laurence1234 15-Jul-11 10:35am

Yeah, I re-read the article I thought had suggested that. I had got the wrong end of the stick :p

I have tried your approach above, the program opened however it didn't didn't load the file...

OriginalGriff 15-Jul-11 11:01am

Check the parameters list for the PDF reader - which one are you using?

Laurence1234 15-Jul-11 10:55am

This is the article I had found :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processstartinfo.verbs.aspx

Alongside this one :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969385.aspx