I've got some information I would like to output to a printer, but also as a PDF. I would be great if the PDF and the printing output would look the same. As what I understand, PDF reading and creating is not supported in C#.
I can create PDF's easily with external librarys like iTextSharp, but I don't know how to print them without using a different application, like Adobe Acrobat.
What are my options?
You may consider using a 3rd party PDF printer driver; such as PDFCreator, or CutePDF.
CutePDF has a royalty-free developer version (for purchase) with programmatic access via the Registry.
The only other option that I've come across is using MigraDOC + PDFSharp, but you must author the document via MigraDOC / PDFSharp directly, it can't be a "pre-made" PrintDocument.
In WPF there's PDF viewer controls. I'm not sure if you're using WPF, but if you want to view PDF's inside your own app, this could be a solution. Have a look at this.
Sending a PDF directly to a printer requires a library to interpret the PDF,YOu can probably use Acrobat directly, but something like GhostScript will be more efficient.
