C# PDF Print Library
How to send, print Adobe pdf file to printer without Acrobat Reader installed using C# .net

In this tutorial, you learn how to print PDF programmatically using C#

• Select a specific printer or use default printer
• Print a PDF document or PDF stream object
• Choose printing PDF pages range
• Choose printing resolution
• No need to install Adobe Reader
• Easy to enable printing function in ASP.NET MVC, Windows Forms application using C#

How to print a PDF file programmatically using C#

1. Download XDoc.PDF Printer C# library
2. Install C# library to print Adobe PDF file programmatically
3. Step by Step Tutorial

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• Standalone and easy-to-use API allows C# developers to send a source PDF document file to an actual physical printer device
• Support .NET WinForms, ASP.NET MVC in IIS, ASP.NET Ajax, Azure cloud service, DNN (DotNetNuke), SharePoint
• C# source code for printing PDF adobe PDF file in .NET Windows Forms project
• Provide variety of printing options, like like number of copies, PDF document printing orientation, PDF document printing paper size and PDF document printing resolution
• Fully-featured PDF document printing SDK can help to easily create a custom web-based client-server printing application or a custom Windows Forms project

How to print a PDF file to a specific printer using C#

The following steps show how to print a PDF document to a selected printer.

1. Create a PDFPrinterOption object with the specified printer name
2. Print a PDF file by calling Print method of the class PDFPrinter

String inputFilePath = @"C:\demo_1.pdf";
PDFPrinterOption op = new PDFPrinterOption();
//  Set printer name for printing
op.PrinterName = "Selected printer name";
PDFPrinter.Print(inputFilePath, new PDFPrintSetting(), op);

About printing options

You can apply the following options to choose printing pages range and output resolutions in class PDFPrintSetting.

• StartPageIndex: Index of the first page to print. Default: 0
• StopPageIndex: Index of the last page to print. -1 means to print all remained pages from the first one. Default: -1
• PageResolution: Conversion resolution for the page (in pixel per inch). Default: 300 (dpi)

How to choose printing PDF pages range using C#

The following C# source code shows how to choose a range of PDF pages to print

String inputFilePath = Program.RootPath + "\\" + "1.pdf";
//  print a range of pages from page index 1 to 2
PDFPrintSetting setting = new PDFPrintSetting();
setting.StartPageIndex = 1;
setting.StopPageIndex = 2;
PDFPrinter.Print(inputFilePath, setting, new PDFPrinterOption());

How to change the resolution of the PDF printing output using C#

The following C# source code shows how to set the printing PDF pages resolution

String inputFilePath = Program.RootPath + "\\" + "1.pdf";
//  set print resolution to 600 dpi
PDFPrintSetting setting = new PDFPrintSetting();
setting.StartPageIndex = 1;
setting.StopPageIndex = 1;
setting.PageResolution = 600;
PDFPrinter.Print(inputFilePath, setting, new PDFPrinterOption());

How to print PDF from byte array using C#

The following C# source code shows how to print PDF from byte array object

String inputFilePath = @"C:\demo_1.pdf";
byte[] dataBytes = File.ReadAllBytes(inputFilePath);
PDFPrinterOption op = new PDFPrinterOption();
//  Set printer name for printing
op.PrinterName = "Microsoft Print to PDF";
PDFPrinter.Print(dataBytes, new PDFPrintSetting(), op);

How to print PDF from file stream object using C#

The following C# source code shows how to print PDF from a FileStream object in .net application

String inputFilePath = @"C:\demo_1.pdf";
using (FileStream fs = File.Open(inputFilePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
    PDFPrinterOption op = new PDFPrinterOption();
    //  Set printer name for printing
    op.PrinterName = "Microsoft Print to PDF";
    PDFPrinter.Print(fs, new PDFPrintSetting(), op);
}

How to print PDF from PDFDocument object using C#

The following C# source code shows how to print PDF from PDFDocument object in .net application

String inputFilePath = @"C:\demo_1.pdf";
PDFDocument doc = new PDFDocument(inputFilePath);
//  Save PDFDocument object to data bytes
byte[] dataBytes = doc.SaveToBytes();
PDFPrinterOption op = new PDFPrinterOption();
//  Set printer name for printing
op.PrinterName = "Microsoft Print to PDF";
PDFPrinter.Print(dataBytes, new PDFPrintSetting(), op);

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