Exporting windows form app to PDF (exactly the same)

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Hi guys, this is my first post, please pardon any ignorance i may present.
Anyway i've started coding recently and i took on a learning project to program a windows form app which upon exporting, will be converted to a pdf file.

As of now, I've already successfully achieved the above project using itextsharp and its PdfPTable and PdfPCell components.

However, i wish to export the form exactly as i created in visual studio to PDF, which means i do not want to export the contents in a pdftable format.

I am not asking for the exact code to achieve what I have asked but i simply ask for a direction as i am still confused and lost even after reading through many relevant posts.

thanks,
Xiaonelly

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I am not asking for the exact code to achieve what I have asked but i simply ask for a direction as i am still confused and lost even after reading through many relevant posts.

Posted 13-Nov-18 21:43pm

Xiaonelly

Updated 13-Nov-18 22:24pm

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Aydin Homay · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-13T22:25:00

Hi,
So first let me explain my understanding of what you want to achieve. You would like to export your winform to PDF as it is, Right? If so, then you will have several options but most of them will require a component that converts stream (information in memory) into a PDF file. A very easy way would be printing the winform and selecting a PDF printer (which you can easily install one from the internet) as the printer. In this way, you are in fact changing the scope of the problem to a problem which is more easy to solve. How to print a winform? For this new problem which will at the end provide a nice solution to solve the original problem as well (how to export winform into PDF) you have the below solutions that have been discussed with others before, and they accepted the solutions:

From CodeProject:
Print-Windows-form-in-Csharp-Net

From Stack Overflow:
c# - convert windows form to pdf file - Stack Overflow

If this did not solve your problem then please leave a comment and I will assist you by improving my solution until your problem gets solved.

Cheers,
AH