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Eric Dan
The regular Scenario:
Converting office documents (Word, Excel, Outlook emails etc.) to tiff files.
Possible solution:
Using the "Microsoft office document image writer" – the virtual tiff
printer. This is a good solution for doing the task interactively.
The more complicated scenario:
Doing the same task as above (converting office documents to tiff files) but
in a background service.
The problems:
1. Microsoft warns from using office automation within a service (even if
the service runs with the credentials of a real user with a profile.
2. Some printing methods of office automation (like in Outlook
MailItem.PrintOut) do not enable passing parameters to control the printing
and it becomes a big problem when printing to the virtual tiff printer
because a tiff file name must be supplied interactively.
Question:
What is the recommended way to achive the task of converting Office
documents to tiff files in a background (as pure non interactive task)?
Converting office documents (Word, Excel, Outlook emails etc.) to tiff files.
Possible solution:
Using the "Microsoft office document image writer" – the virtual tiff
printer. This is a good solution for doing the task interactively.
The more complicated scenario:
Doing the same task as above (converting office documents to tiff files) but
in a background service.
The problems:
1. Microsoft warns from using office automation within a service (even if
the service runs with the credentials of a real user with a profile.
2. Some printing methods of office automation (like in Outlook
MailItem.PrintOut) do not enable passing parameters to control the printing
and it becomes a big problem when printing to the virtual tiff printer
because a tiff file name must be supplied interactively.
Question:
What is the recommended way to achive the task of converting Office
documents to tiff files in a background (as pure non interactive task)?