Printing Word Docs on a Server?

[Selden McCabe]

I have a webservice which, among other functions, tries to print Word
documents.
If I have it launch Word, it seems to be running under ASPNET, which does
not have access to any printers.

Is there any other way to print word docs without actually launching Word?

Thanks,
---Selden

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Selden,

I have a webservice which, among other functions, tries to print Word
documents.
If I have it launch Word, it seems to be running under ASPNET, which does
not have access to any printers.

Is there any other way to print word docs without actually launching Word?

Not really. You'd have to serialize them to some other format, such as HTML
or maybe *.pdf. But serializing them (as opposed to the user having saved
them in HTML, RTF or PDF format) would also involve running Word, something
that shouldn't be done on a server.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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