How to convert XPS to PDF document in WinForms?

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The Syncfusion® PDF library is a .NET PDF library used to create, read, and edit PDF documents programmatically without Adobe dependencies. Using this library, you can convert XPS document to PDF in ASP.NET core.

Steps to convert XPS to PDF document programmatically:

Create a new C# console application project.

Create a console application in Visual Studio

Install the Syncfusion.XpsToPdfConverter.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your .NET Framework application from NuGet.org.

Refer NuGet to the project

Include the following namespaces in Program.cs file.

using Syncfusion.Pdf;
using Syncfusion.XPS;

The following code explains how to convert XPS to PDF. Convert the XPSToPDF document using the Convert method available in XPSToPDFConverter class .

//Initialize XPS to PDF converter
 
XPSToPdfConverter converter = new XPSToPdfConverter();
 
//Open the XPS file as stream
 
FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(“Input.xps", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
 
//Convert the XPS to PDF
 
PdfDocument document = converter.Convert(fileStream);
 
//Creating the stream object
 
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
 
//Save the document into stream
 
document.Save(stream);
 
//If the position is not set to '0' then the PDF will be empty
 
stream.Position = 0;
 
//Close the documents
 
document.Close(true);
 
//Defining the ContentType for pdf file
 
string contentType = "application/pdf";
 
//Define the file name
 
string fileName = "Output.pdf";
 
//Creates a FileContentResult object by using the file contents, content type, and file name
 
return File(stream, contentType, fileName);

A complete work sample for convert XPS document to PDF can be downloaded from XPSToPDFSample.Zip.

By executing the program, you will get the PDF document as follows.

Convert XPS to PDF document

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How to convert XPS to PDF document in WinForms?

Steps to convert XPS to PDF document programmatically:

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