Batch Converting PDF to XPS

Question

I'm looking for an inexpensive way of batch converting 1300 PDF documents to XPS documents. I know that I can simply print them in that format, but that would take a very long time. Is there a way to do this programmatically in C#?

Answer 1

Depending on your definition of inexpensive there are a couple of options:

inexpensive = less than $1000:

You can use PDF2XPS for about $550: http://www.pdftron.com/pdf2xps/index.html

inexpensive = "free":

You can follow the suggestions in this thread to use GhostScript to convert your PDFs to image files, then you can use the XpsDocumentWriter class to create your documents.

Answer 2

If you only need to do it once, then a mixture of custom code and existing solutions could work:

1. Get FoxIt Reader for free
2. For each document, execute this command:

   "C:\Program Files (x86)\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe" -t C:\documents\document1.pdf "Microsoft XPS Document Writer"

3. Detect when the "Save the file as" dialog box pops up (Maybe a Process.GetProcessesByName against aplwow64.exe in a Timer?) and use SendKeys to populate the file name and save

   Alternatively, go down the p/invoke route to call FindWindow and SendMessage directly.